Anne Michaels Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Longlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize 2024, this book explores profound themes of identity and belonging through its richly developed characters. Set against a backdrop of societal change, it delves into the complexities of human relationships and the impact of cultural heritage. The narrative intertwines personal struggles with broader social issues, offering readers a thought-provoking journey that challenges perceptions and invites reflection on contemporary life.

For fans of Mary Poppins, heroine Miss Petitfour and her feline friends return for more flights of fancy in this cozy, charming collection of illustrated stories, now in paperback. Miss Petitfour enjoys having adventures that are "just the right size" for a "single, magical day." With her sixteen cats and the aid of a tablecloth as a makeshift balloon, Miss Petitfour soars — which is to say, she rises high in the air and flies — over her charmingly eccentric village, encountering adventures along the way. One never knows where the wind will take her in this delightfully seasonal collection of magical outings: perhaps to the aid of dearly loved friends and neighbors, including a hapless handyman and an onion-loving baby, or to a coconut-confetti parade, or in search of keys, lucky charms or even simply the perfect tablecloth for her next flight. A witty, whimsical, beautifully illustrated collection of tales that celebrate language, storytelling and all the pleasures of life, large and small!

Poems of elegy in the aftermath of a great love from the internationally best-selling, award-winning novelist (Fugitive Pieces, The Winter Vault) and poet. In All We Saw, Anne Michaels returns with strikingly original poems to explore one of her essential concerns: "what love makes us capable of, and incapable of." Here are the ways in which passion must accept, must insist, that "death . . . give / not only take from us." This piercing short collection treats desire in a style that is chaste, spare, figuratively modulated, and almost classical in its precision. In lyrics that ponder what happens to the bodies of lovers--so vital when together, different when apart, death coming to one before the other--Michaels embraces both the intimacy and the vastness of the connection between two people. Love's sheltering understanding is a powerful presence in all the poems, with its particular imagery (the ringing fog, the white page of the bed), as is the shattering loss of its end. With Michaels, we enter a space that is "not inside / not outside: dusk's / doorway," where memory might be kept alive.

Meet the utterly irresistible Miss Petitfour (a name of unknown origin but possibly descended from bakers of tiny delicious cakes). She loves baking and making and dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly. All she has to do is pick up a favourite tablecloth (preferably the one with the paisley print), catch the breeze and she swooshes off on an adventure - with her many cats (Minky, Misty, Taffy, Purrsia, Pirate, Mustard, Moutarde, Hemdala, Earring, Grigorovich, Clasby, Captain Captain, Captain Catkin, Captain Clothespin, Your Shyness and Sizzles) dangling paw-to-tail behind her.In five utterly captivating stories of gentle adventure, delicious edibles (with cheese for the cats), occasional peril and heart-zinging warmth, poet and novelist Anne Michaels (author of bestselling, award-winning Fugitive Pieces) makes a charming, purrfect debut as a children's author.

Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be dismantled and resurrected high above the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. This daunting task is overseen by Avery, a young engineer who, at the same time, is carefully building a life with his new wife, Jean. But not everything can be saved once the floodgates have opened: villages will be deluged, thousands will be exiled from their homes, and graves will be moved. And when Avery and Jean suffer a terrible loss of their own, they begin their separate journeys through the landscape of grief.Weaving historical moments with the quiet intimacy of human lives, "The winter vault" is the story of a husband and a wife trying to find their way back to each other; of people and nations displaced; and of the myriad means by which we all seek out a place to call home

In 1964 Egypt, the grand temple at Abu Simbel faces destruction due to the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. Avery, a young engineer, is tasked with the monumental challenge of dismantling and relocating the temple sixty meters higher. Amidst this daunting project, he is also building a life with his new wife, Jean. However, the floodgates bring inevitable devastation: villages submerged, graves relocated, and thousands displaced from their ancestral homes. As the temple is carefully reconstructed, Avery and Jean endure a profound personal loss that propels them on separate journeys through grief. Their paths take them from Egypt to Canada and to lands transformed by flooding, encountering a guerrilla painter in war-torn Poland whose story intertwines destruction and hope. The narrative intricately weaves historical events with personal struggles, exploring how individuals salvage meaning from life's upheavals. It portrays a couple striving to reconnect amidst chaos, reflecting on displacement and the universal quest for belonging. This poignant tale delves into the weight of memories, the pain of loss, and the healing power of love, capturing the essence of human resilience in the face of adversity.

A collection of poems by Anne Michaels. The poems are meditations onhow love changes in order to survive, how we move from "obsoletescience" to new perceptions, and how, in her words, "the sameloneliness that closes us/ Opens us again".

From the author of "Fugitive Pieces", this work provides a collection of poems, meditations on how love changes in order to survive and how we move from "obsolete science" to new perceptions.

Der polnische Jude Jakob ist ist auf der Flucht vor den Deutschen, als einziger Überlebender seiner Familie. Erst nach Jahren hilft ihm die Liebe zu einer Frau, seine Schuldgefühle zu bewältigen. - Romandebüt voller Poesie und tiefem Glauben an die Menschlichkeit.

Anne Michaels’ spellbinding début novel has quickly become one of the most beloved and talked-about books of the decade. As a young boy during the Second World War, Jakob Beer is rescued from the mud in Poland by an unlikely saviour, the scientist Athos Roussos, and he is taken to Greece, then, at war’s end, to Toronto. It is here that his loss gradually surfaces, as does the haunting question of his sister’s fate. Later in life, as a translator and a poet, and now with the glorious Michaela, Jakob meets Ben, a young professor whose own legacies of the war kindle within him a fascination with the older man and his writing. Fugitive Pieces is a work of rare vision that is at once lyrical, sensual, profound. With its vivid evocation of landscape and character, its unique excavation of memory and time, it is a wholly unforgettable novel that draws us into the lives of its characters with compassion and recognition.