Canoes |
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Author:
| De Kerangal, Maylis |
Translator:
| Moore, Jessica |
ISBN: | 978-1-953861-96-2 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2024 |
Publisher: | Steerforth Press
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Imprint: | Archipelago |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.00 |
Book Description:
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From the author of Eastbound, a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2023 A colorful cast of female characters contends with UFOs, sonic waves, and the legend of Buffalo Bill in a spellbinding novella and 7 short stories about the mysteries of place and language "The translation of any of Maylis de Kerangal's books is a gift." -- Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker Ricocheting off of the book's exhilarating central novella and 7...
More Description From the author of Eastbound, a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2023
A colorful cast of female characters contends with UFOs, sonic waves, and the legend of Buffalo Bill in a spellbinding novella and 7 short stories about the mysteries of place and language
"The translation of any of Maylis de Kerangal's books is a gift." -- Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker
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.