Birth of a bridge
Kerangal, Maylis de2015
Books
Find it!
Coca, Southern California. A small town on a wild river, at the margins of the red-rocked desert and the forest where the last of the state's Native Americans still make their home. When Boa, the charismatic new mayor, decides to put Coca on the map, he plans a monumental new project: a six-lane bridge, 200m high, designed and destined to catapult the city into the third millennium. Workers from across the globe flock to California: to earn a living, to escape their pasts, to bear witness to man's mastery of nature. But the project's majestic scope has no regard for the legacy of this ancient land, and within this monochrome Babel festers a very human cocktail of fears and passions.
Main title:
Birth of a bridge / Maylis de Kerangal ; translated by Jessica Moore.
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2015.
Collation:
288 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780857053787 (pbk)
Dewey class:
843.92
Language:
EnglishFrench
BRN:
240288
More Information: