In The Winter Vault, award-winning poet and novelist Anne Michaels crafts a love story of extraordinary depth and complexity, juxtaposing historic dislocations with the most intimate moments of individual lives. In 1964, a newly married Canadian couple settles into a Nile River houseboat moored below the towering figures of Abu Simbel. Avery is one of the engineers responsible for moving the temple above the rapidly rising waters of the Aswan Dam. At the edge of a world about to be lost forever, Avery and and his new wife Jean begin to create their own world. But it will not be enough to bind them when tragedy strikes and they go back to separate lives in Toronto. There Jean meets Lucjan, a Polish artist whose haunting stories of his shattered childhood in occupied Warsaw draw her further away from Avery. But, in time, he will also show her the way back to consolation and forgiveness.

"Never before published, Rail Tracks is a unique collaboration between two international writers of remarkable achievement, and offers a threaded reflection on the atmospherics and allure of the train, with its attendant stories of love, longing, labour and migration. Developing out of a 2005 collaboration with theatre company Complicite on a unique, site-specific performance, Vanishing Points for the Gymnasium, King's Cross, London, it is an intimate, sensual, exploratory and insightful meditation on place and time, journeys and arrivals. It will be available in several editions internationally, fully illustrated with the evocative photography of Tereza Stehlíková."--Publisher.