Birth of a Bridge

Literature & Fiction

De Kerangal, Maylis

Kerangal, Maylis De

Contemporary

MacLehose Press

From one of the most exciting novelists writing in France today comes this literary saga of a dozen men and women engineers, designers, machinery operators, cable riggers all employees of the international consortium charged with building a bridge somewhere in a mythical and fantastic California. Told on a sweeping scale reminiscent of classic American adventure films, this Médicis Prizewinning novel chronicles the lives of these workers, who represent a microcosm of not just mythic California, but of humanity as a whole. Their collective effort to complete the megaproject recounts one of the oldest of human dramas, to domesticate and to radically transform our world through built form, with all the dramatic tension it brings: a threatened strike, an environmental dispute, sabotage, accidents, career moves, and love affairs Here generations and social classes cease to exist, and everyone and everything converges toward the bridge as metaphor, a cross-cultural impression of America today. Kerangal’s writing has been widely praised for its scope, originality, and use of language. The style of her prose is rich and innovative, playing with different registers (from the most highly literary to the most colloquial slang), taking risks and inventing words, and playing with speed and tension through grammatical ellipsis and elision. She employs a huge vocabulary and, most strikingly, brings together words not often combined to evoke startling comparisons. Not since Vikram Seth’s Golden Gate has such a great Californian novel been told.

Literary

Talonbooks

Mend the Living is the story of a heart transplant, centred around Simon Limbeau, the boy whose heart is given, and his family. 
Taking place within exactly twenty-four hours, the novel traces the thrill of an early-morning winter surf session, the terrible accident that follows, and all the urgency and compassion of the hospital workers, and shock and grief of Simon’s family as they negotiate the question of organ donation. Maylis de Kerangal offers glimpses into the thoughts and affective lives of each of the characters: Simon, at the core of the novel; Marianne and Sean, his parents, who have been estranged for some months; Revol, the chief surgeon, music enthusiast, and studier of hallucinogenic plants; Cordelia Owl, the capable new nurse who is reeling from a night spent with her former lover; Thomas Rémige, the hospital coordinator, an opera singer, and aficionado of goldfinches; Virgilio, the silvertongued, light-fingered surgeon; Juliette, Simon’s girlfriend, who is building a labyrinth inside a Plexiglass case, waiting for Simon’s call. 
The novel also touches upon Claire, the recipient of the heart, whose life has been limited by her condition, who reflects philosophically on what it means to have someone else’s heart beating inside you. 
Weaving from hospital corridors to the wild waves of the Atlantic, from the narrow streets of Paris to the countryside in Algeria where goldfinches still sing, from the most intimate details of grief within a car in Le Havre to universal considerations of science, compassion, and humanity, Mend the Living is a powerful and vast-ranging book. In her trademark masterful use of language, playing with pacing and tension and a vibrant vocabulary, Maylis de Kerangal gives us a metaphysical adventure that is at once both collective and intimate.

Mend the Living

80pages. 22x15x2cm. Broch. Chaque maison cache un secret, les murs ont des oreilles mais la bouche cousue. Il faut poser longtemps la joue contre leur sein, ccmme un docteur fivreux, pour les entendre respirer. A Dun-le-Palestel, dans la Creuse, la maison de famille du narrateur en a si gros sur le cur et tant dire qu'on va la confesser, pice aprs pice, l'couter se raconter, souvenirs drangs, vrits arranges, les choses et les gens tels qu'ils furent, les chos et les ombres qu'il en reste. Elle finira bien par lcher cequ'elle sait. Elle sait l'histoire d'un pre qui, lui, avait choisi de se taire.

À ce stade de la nuit (French Edition)

VERTICALES

R200030642. NAISSANCE D'UN PONT.. 2010. In-8. Broch. Bon tat, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intrieur frais. 316 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840-Littratures des langues romanes. Littrature franaise

Naissance d'un pont

Tangente vers l'est

RO30304989. Rparer les vivants. 2014. In-8. Broch. Bon tat, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intrieur frais. 180 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 840-Littratures des langues romanes. Littrature franaise

Réparer les vivants (French Edition)

Corniche Kennedy

Фоліо

«ø€ l€™aube du second jour, quand les buildings de Coca montent, soudain perpendiculaires ø la surface du fleuve, c€™est un autre homme qui sort des bois, c€™est un homme hors de lui, c€™est un meurtrier en puissance. Le soleil se lø¨ve, il ricoche contre les faø§ades de verre et d€™acier, irise les nappes d€™hydrocarbures moirées arc-en-ciel qui auréolent la surface du fleuve, et les plaques de métal taillées en triangle qui festonnent le bordé de la pirogue, rutilant dans la lumiø¨re, dessinent une mø¢choire ouverte.» Ce livre part d€™une ambition ø la fois simple et folle : raconter la construction d€™un pont suspendu quelque part dans une Californie imaginaire ø partir des destins croisés d€™une dizaine d€™hommes et femmes, tous employés du gigantesque chantier. Un roman-fleuve, «ø l€™américaine», qui brasse des sensations et des røªves, des paysages et des machines, des plans de

Naissance D Un Pont 1

Genre Fiction

Dans les rapides

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Birth of a Bridge

Birth of a Bridge

Mend the Living

À ce stade de la nuit (French Edition)

Naissance d'un pont

Tangente vers l'est

Réparer les vivants (French Edition)

Corniche Kennedy

Naissance D Un Pont 1

Dans les rapides