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From the author of Eastbound, a New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year
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 Kerangals books is a gift. Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker
De Kerangals masterful collection examines alienation and grief at pivotal moments in her characters lives . . . Each story is richly complex, and the collections recurring canoe imagery gives it the feel of a treasure map . . . This understated volume packs a powerful punch. Publishers Weekly, starred review
Ricocheting off of the books 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 husbands 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.
Author: Maylis De Kerangal
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Published: 10/29/2024
Pages: 197
Weight: 0.81lbs
ISBN: 9781953861962
Language: English
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