Canoes
By Maylis De Kerangal
Translated by Jessica Moore
By Maylis De Kerangal
Translated by Jessica Moore
Category: Short Stories | Women's Fiction
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$19.00
Oct 29, 2024 | ISBN 9781953861962
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Praise
The characters in Maylis de Kerangal’s haunting stories are impassioned detectives or solitary archaeologists taking the measure of those traces by which we find our way. In their immersive observation they track the minute changes that transform everything they thought they knew about the way we’re both jettisoned and anchored by those around us. — Jim Shepard
“De Kerangal’s masterful collection examines alienation and grief at pivotal moments in her characters’ lives . . . Each story is richly complex, and the collection’s recurring canoe imagery gives it the feel of a treasure map . . . This understated volume packs a powerful punch.” –– Publishers Weekly, starred review
“The stories capture fleeting ideas and moments . . . Above all there’s an appealing tone of exploration, of reaching for the ineffable in the past, present, and future . . . An accomplished braid of explorations into sound and significance.” –– Kirkus Reviews
“Exquisite . . . De Kerangal pairs gloriously sensuous and caustically incisive visual descriptions of interiors, cities, highways, sprawling suburbs, land, and sky with uncanny and revealing soundscapes that capture the layered timbres of nature, humans, and machines. These unusual and vibrant stories are poetically recalibrating, droll, and intriguing.”
— Donna Seaman, Booklist starred review
Table Of Contents
Contents
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