Ann Michaels is an outstanding Canadian poet and writer, winner and finalist of numerous international awards, "the author of a unique and irresistible power" (The Times); her books have become global bestsellers and have been filmed, translated into 45 languages. Her third novel, When They Hold Us, is a finalist for the 2024 Booker Prize and the Prix Femina Étranger, as well as a winner of the Giller Prize and the Prix Transfuge. The action of the intellectual bestseller "The Winter Crypt", written "with menacingly beautiful intensity" (Sunday Telegraph), which was included in the long list of the International Dublin IMPAC Award and in the short lists of the Trillium and Giller Awards, as well as the Commonwealth Writers' Awards, begins in 1964 in Egypt, where a whole army of international specialists is working on dismantling and the relocation of the ancient Abu Simbel temple, which is threatened with flooding by the waters of the new reservoir formed on the Nile during the construction of the High-rise Aswan Dam. Here, "the future casts a shadow over the past," here, "regrets are not the end of the story; this is the middle of it," here, "love is... when you leave behind everything that happened." Here, Canadian engineer Avery and his young wife Jean "have to seize not the last chance, but the missed one" in an attempt to find a way to each other again, because "it is impossible to draw a line between one kind of love and another," and "our memories contain more than we remember." For the first time in Russian!