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    ISBN: 9781772015454 |

    128 pages | Pub. Date: 20231005
    5.5 W × 8.5 H × 0.5 D inches
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Canoes
By Maylis de Kerangal
Translated by Jessica Moore

In Canoes seven stories orbit a central novella, creating a collection that resonates with the vibrations and frequencies of women’s voices. Daughters, friends, sisters, young and old, talkative or daydreaming – in this moving and poetic collection, Maylis de Kerangal casts light on them all, exploring human entwinement and the precarious balance between life and death.

“[De Kerangal] luxuriates in the deep layers of time on which Canoes is constructed, unfurling long and sweeping sentences that grow and meander into individual, multi-layered explorations of humanity.”
—the New European

“De Kerangal is a wonderfully attentive writer with an ear for the most apposite word (a challenge elegantly met by Jessica Moore, who translated the book from the French) as this pitch-perfect collection reveals.”
—the Daily Mail

“The beauty of [De] Kerangal’s poetic, multi-layered stories, full of sensory detail and expertly translated by Jessica Moore, lies in their emotional resonance. Anyone dealing with change cannot fail to be moved.”
—the Financial Times

By Maylis de Kerangal

Maylis de Kerangal is the author of several novels in French: Je marche sous un ciel de traîne (2000), La vie voyageuse (2003), Corniche Kennedy (2008), and Naissance d’un pont (translated here as Birth of a Bridge, winner of the Franz Hessel Prize and the Médicis Prize in 2010).

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Translated by Jessica Moore

Jessica Moore is an author and literary translator. Mend the Living, her translation of the novel by Maylis de Kerangal, was nominated for the 2016 Man Booker International and won the UK’s Wellcome Prize in 2017.

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news | 2023-11-08
"Canoes" Reviewed in the Daily Mail

…Eithne Farry reviewed Canoes in the Daily Mail. Written by Maylis de Kerangal …

news | 2023-11-05
"Canoes" Reviewed in the Financial Times

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news | 2023-11-01
"Canoes" Has Arrived!

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news | 2023-10-19
"Canoes" Reviewed in the New European

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news | 2023-08-23
Women in Translation Month

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