news | Monday November 10, 2014

Book Review: Birth of a Bridge in the Wall Street Journal

A review of Maylis de Kerangal’s novel, Birth of a Bridge (translated by Jessica Moore), appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Friday, November 7. Written by Sam Sacks, who found the book “delightful,” the review juxtaposed this novel with Suspended Sentences by Patrick Modiano. Read the review online, and see highlights below.

“Ms. de Kerangal’s writing is always exuberant (and boisterously translated by Jessica Moore) … This delightful book’s unabashed idealism, combined with those playfully literary proper names, marks it as a kind of aspirational fairy tale. … Ms. de Kerangal gives us a Tocquevillian picture of America from its most flattering angle: An enterprising, melting-pot democracy driven by dreams of progress and happy to get its hands dirty…”