Canoes
Call Number
- FICTION KERA (CEN, OSH)
Edition
First Archipelago Books edition.
Languages
In English, translated from the French.
Publication Information
Brooklyn, New York : Archipelago Books, 2024.
Physical Description
197 pages ; 15 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
"Ricocheting off of the book's 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 husband's 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."--Amazon
Notes
"Originally published in French as Canoës by Éditions Galllimard, Paris, in 2021."--Title page verso.
"Copyright © Maylis de Kerangal , 2021 ; English translation copyright © Jessica Moore, 2024."--Title page verso.
Contents
- Bivouac
- Stream and iron filings
- Mustang
- Nevermore
- A light bird
- After
- Ontario
- Arianespace
- Translator's note.