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Informationen zum Autor 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. In 2014, her fifth novel, Mend the Living , was published to wide acclaim in France, winning the Grand Prix RTL-Lire award and the student choice novel of the year from France Culture and Télèrama. In the UK, Mend the Living was longlisted for the Booker International Prize in 2016, and won the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017 - only the second novel and the first work in translation ever to do so. Jessica Moore is an author and translator. Her book of poems, Everything, now , is partly a conversation with her translation of Turkana Boy by Jean-François Beauchemin, for which she won a PEN America Translation Award. Jessica's translation of Birth of a Bridge by Maylis de Kerangal has received widespread praise. She lives in Montreal. Klappentext A beautiful collection of seven short stories and a novella themed around women's voices from the author of Mend the Living and Painting Time Vorwort A beautiful collection of seven short stories and a novella themed around women's voices from the author of Mend the Living and Painting Time Zusammenfassung A beautiful collection of seven short stories and a novella themed around women's voices from the author of Mend the Living and Painting Time

Product details

• Authors: Maylis de Kerangal, MAYLIS DE KERANGAL
• Assisted by: Jessica Moore (Translation), Moore Jessica (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781529419658
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-1965-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 200 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), France, FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Novella (Short Novel)