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Birth of a Bridge
Maylis de Kerangal
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Description for Birth of a Bridge
Paperback. The multi-award-winning compact epic of passion, ambition and the American Dream. Translator(s): Moore, Jessica. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Coca, Southern California. A small town on a wild river, at the margins of the red-rocked desert and the forest where the last of the state's Native Americans still make their home. When Boa, the charismatic new mayor, decides to put Coca on the map, he plans a monumental new project: a six-lane bridge, two hundred metres high, designed and destined to catapult the city into the third millennium. Workers from across the globe flock to California: to earn a living, to escape their pasts, to bear witness to man's mastery of nature. But ... Read more
Coca, Southern California. A small town on a wild river, at the margins of the red-rocked desert and the forest where the last of the state's Native Americans still make their home. When Boa, the charismatic new mayor, decides to put Coca on the map, he plans a monumental new project: a six-lane bridge, two hundred metres high, designed and destined to catapult the city into the third millennium. Workers from across the globe flock to California: to earn a living, to escape their pasts, to bear witness to man's mastery of nature. But ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857053817
SKU
V9780857053817
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About Maylis de Kerangal
Maylis de Kerangal spent her childhood in Le Havre, France. Her novel, Birth of a Bridge, was the winner of the Prix Franz Hessel and Prix Medicis in 2010. Her novella Tangente vers l'est was the winner of the 2012 Prix Landerneau. In 2014, her fifth novel, Mend the Living (Reparer les vivants), was published to wide acclaim, winning the ... Read more
Reviews for Birth of a Bridge
Moore's translation is elegant and sensitively attuned to the author's wordplay and neologisms
Kirkus Reviews This delightful book's unabashed idealism marks it as a kind of aspirational fairy tale
Sam Sachs
Wall Street Journal
A magnificent novel ... The book's themes are mythic; it's prose, symphonic
M.A.C. Farrant
Vancouver Sun
'A literary explosion' ... Read more
Kirkus Reviews This delightful book's unabashed idealism marks it as a kind of aspirational fairy tale
Sam Sachs
Wall Street Journal
A magnificent novel ... The book's themes are mythic; it's prose, symphonic
M.A.C. Farrant
Vancouver Sun
'A literary explosion' ... Read more