Readers of Anne Michaels's first novel, "Fugitive Pieces", will recognise the world of her new book, "The Winter Vault". It is easy enough to say that they are both about landscape and exile, memory and grief. But it is the tightness with which Ms Michaels knots these things together that marks her novels out. "Nothing exists independently," says a character in "The Winter Vault", "not a single molecule, not a thought."
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