Birth of a Bridge by Maylis De Kerangal

Birth of a Bridge by Maylis De Kerangal

The multi-award-winning compact epic of passion, ambition and the American Dream.

One of the most original and exciting writers to have come from France in the last few years -- Jonathan Coe
Maylis de Kerangal's extraordinary novel is her first book to be translated into EnglishHopefully we will not have to wait long for more. -- J.S. Tennant * Independent *
Astonishing writing ... an original, laconic, astute and relentlessly topical morality tale that scores several direct hits -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
'A literary explosion' Marine Landrot, Télérama. * Télérama *
A magnificent novel ... The book's themes are mythic; it's prose, symphonic -- M.A.C. Farrant * Vancouver Sun *
This delightful book's unabashed idealism marks it as a kind of aspirational fairy tale -- Sam Sachs * Wall Street Journal *
Moore's translation is elegant and sensitively attuned to the author's wordplay and neologisms -- Kirkus Reviews

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 Médicis in 2010. Her novella Tangente vers l'est was the winner of the 2012 Prix Landerneau. In 2014, her fifth novel, Mend the Living (Réparer les vivants), was published to wide acclaim, winning the Grand Prix RTL-Lire award and the student choice novel of the year from France Culture and Télèrama. It was long listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015.

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ISBN 13	9780857053817
ISBN 10	0857053817
Title	Birth of a Bridge
Author	Maylis De Kerangal
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Quercus Publishing
Year published	2017-05-18
Number of pages	288
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