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Held (novel) - Wikipedia

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Held

Author	Anne Michaels
Language	English
Publisher	Knopf^[1]
Publication date	2023
Publication place	Canada
Pages	240
ISBN	9780593536865

Held is a 2023 novel by writer and poet Anne Michaels, published by Knopf, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House. An epic novel, spanning from 1902 to 2025, the work tells the story of multiple members of a family spanning four generations. The locations or settings are varied and include a French battlefield during World War I, 1900s Paris, mid-20th century Suffolk, 2025 in Finland, and London. Many of the settings take place in war zones. The narrative is told unconventionally as the plot shifts back and forth from the past to the present or future. The characters in each time period also have few connections to one another, but although the disparate stories have different relationships, characters and plots, several themes recur throughout the narratives. Themes explored by various characters include mortality and death, the philosophy of science, love, the soul, grief, and forms of image capture such as photography.

The novel was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize,^[2] and won the 2024 Giller Prize.^[3]

Reception

Writing for The Observer, novelist Alice Jolly stated that Michaels explored many human themes such as history, love, loss and trauma using beautifully constructed prose, similarly to her earlier novel Fugitive Pieces.^[4] Writing for The Guardian, writer and historian Lucy Hughes-Hallett states the non-chronological manner in which the narrative is told, moving back and forth between different eras, with interspersed memories, dream sequences and meditations of different characters make the work more profound.^[5] Reviewing the work for the Times Literary Supplement, Andrew Motion in a negative review, stated that the novel has less "imaginative energy" than her previous novels Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault and that the elliptical plot and lack character development with lack of establishing the settings, essentially makes the characters "ciphers for the author's obsessions."^[6]

References

^ "Held by Anne Michaels". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
^ "Held, Written by Anne Michaels". Booker Prize. Retrieved October 7, 2024.
^ Brad Wheeler, "Anne Michaels wins the 2024 Giller Prize for her generations-spanning novel Held". The Globe and Mail, November 18, 2024.
^ Jolly, Alice (November 19, 2023). "Held by Anne Michaels review – still master of her universe". The Observer. Retrieved October 7, 2024.
^ Hughes-Hallett, Lucy (November 2, 2023). "Held by Anne Michaels review – a kaleidoscopic family saga". The Guardian. Retrieved October 7, 2024.
^ Motion, Andrew (November 17, 2023). "A family across the generations, set against a world in flux". Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved October 7, 2024.

v t e Recipients of the Giller Prize
1990s	M. G. Vassanji, The Book of Secrets (1994) Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance (1995) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (1996) Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version (1997) Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman (1998) Bonnie Burnard, A Good House (1999)
2000s	Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost / David Adams Richards, Mercy among the Children (2000) Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (2001) Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe (2002) M. G. Vassanji, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003) Alice Munro, Runaway (2004) David Bergen, The Time in Between (2005) Vincent Lam, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (2006) Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air (2007) Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (2008) Linden MacIntyre, The Bishop's Man (2009)
2010s	Johanna Skibsrud, The Sentimentalists (2010) Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues (2011) Will Ferguson, 419 (2012) Lynn Coady, Hellgoing (2013) Sean Michaels, Us Conductors (2014) André Alexis, Fifteen Dogs (2015) Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016) Michael Redhill, Bellevue Square (2017) Esi Edugyan, Washington Black (2018) Ian Williams, Reproduction (2019)
2020s	Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife (2020) Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise (2021) Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter (2022) Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience (2023) Anne Michaels, Held (2024)

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