Canoes / Maylis de Kerangal ; translated from the French by Jessica Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kerangal, Maylis de, author.

Contributor:

Moore, Jessica, 1978- translator.

Standardized Title:

Canoës. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Grief--Fiction.

Grief.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Short stories.

short stories.

French fiction.

Genre:

short stories.

Fiction

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

197 pages ; 15 cm

Edition:

First Archipelago Books edition.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, New York : Archipelago Books, 2024.

Language Note:

In English, translated from the French.

Summary:

"Ricocheting off of the book's exhilarating central novella and 7 short stories, the women we meet in Canoes are by turns indelibly witty, insightful, intimate, bracing, and profoundly interconnected. "When did I start placing myself in the fable?" a young Parisian wonders as she tells her son the legend of Buffalo Bill, a spectral presence atop the mountain in their small Colorado town. She has just moved to the United States and everything disorients her - suburbs stretching along reptilian highways, a new house rigged like a studio set, but most of all, the sound of her husband's voice. Sam speaks with a different tone in English, not the soft and swift timbre of his native French. From a voice made new, Maylis de Kerangal opens up a torrent of curiosities, hauntings, and questions about place and language. The women of these stories are mad about: stones, molds of human jaws, voicemail recordings, sonic waves, UFOs, and always how the texture of human voice entwines with their obsessions. With cosmic harmonics, vivid imagery, and a revelatory composition, Canoes will leave readers forever altered."--Amazon

Contents:

Bivouac

Stream and iron filings

Mustang

Nevermore

A light bird

After

Ontario

Arianespace

Translator's note.

Notes:

"Originally published in French as Canoës by Éditions Galllimard, Paris, in 2021."--Title page verso.

"Copyright © Maylis de Kerangal , 2021 ; English translation copyright © Jessica Moore, 2024."--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781953861962

1953861962

OCLC:

1463417527