Birth of a Bridge
By Maylis de Kerangal and Jessica Moore
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From one of the most exciting novelists writing in France today comes Birth of a Bridge – the story of a handful of men and women of various backgrounds and classes, who assemble around the construction of a giant suspension bridge in Coca, a fictional city somewhere in a mythical and fantastic California.
Told on a sweeping scale reminiscent of classic American adventure films, this Médicis Prize–winning novel chronicles the lives of these individuals, who represent a microcosm of not just mythic California, but of humanity as a whole. Their collective effort to complete (or oppose) the mega-project 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.
De Kerangal’s writing has been widely praised for its scope, originality, and use of language. Her rich prose plays with different registers (from the most highly literary to the most colloquial slang) as well as speed and tension through grammatical ellipsis and elision. She employs a huge vocabulary and invents new relationships between words in a completely innovative use of language.
Maylis de Kerangal
Maylis de Kerangal (Toulon, 1967) ha trabajado en el mundo editorial y es autora, entre otras, de las novelas Je marche sous un ciel de traîne, La Vie voyageuse, Corniche Kennedy y Tangente vers l’est, y del libro de relatos Ni fleurs ni couronnes. En Anagrama ha publicado la novela Nacimiento de un puente, traducida a ocho idiomas y galardonada con los premios Médicis, Franz Hessel y Gregor von Rezzori: «No sólo se nos cuenta la historia de la construcción de un puente colgante en la californiana ciudad imaginaria de Coca, sino el destino de una decena de personajes venidos de diversos puntos del planeta para trabajar en tamaña empresa, que, a modo de vidas cruzadas, se nos muestran en un escenario tan poco común... Una panorámica a vista de pájaro sin casco ni protección del alma humana» (Ángeles López, La Razón); «Nacimiento de un puente es una novela que arrastra como una locomotora desalmada hasta la última página. Una gran novela. Casi trescientas páginas fulgurantes, apretadas y llenas de poderío y tensión» (Jesús Ferrero, El País); «Singular y sorprendente» (Iñaki Ezquerra, El Comercio).
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