Held
From a WWI battlefield across generations, a luminous novel about love, loss and what endures.
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Présentation
It begins in 1917, with a wounded soldier on a battlefield, suspended between life and death and memory. From there Anne Michaels's Held ripples outward across a century and several generations, tracing love, grief, science and the invisible threads that bind people across time. Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, the novel is spare, luminous and intensely poetic — the work of an acclaimed poet turning the largest questions into images of startling beauty. Less a conventional plot than a constellation of moments, Held asks what remains of us, and of those we love, after they are gone. A short, profound book to read slowly and feel deeply.