{"product_id":"canoes-isbn-9781953861962","title":"Canoes","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eEastbound\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Top 10 Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA 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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“The translation of any of Maylis de Kerangal’s books is a gift.” — Lauren Oyler, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"De Kerangal’s masterful collection examines alienation and grief at pivotal moments in her characters’ lives . . . Each story is richly complex, and the collection’s recurring canoe imagery gives it the feel of a treasure map . . . This understated volume packs a powerful punch.\"  — \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRicocheting off of the book’s exhilarating central novella and 7 short stories, the women we meet in \u003ci\u003eCanoes \u003c\/i\u003eare by turns indelibly witty, insightful, intimate, bracing, and profoundly interconnected.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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, \u003ci\u003eCanoes \u003c\/i\u003ewill leave readers forever altered.\u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBivouac\u003cbr\u003eStream and Iron Filings\u003cbr\u003eMustang\u003cbr\u003eNevermore\u003cbr\u003eA Light Bird\u003cbr\u003eAfter\u003cbr\u003eOntario\u003cbr\u003eArianespace\"Expertly translated by Jessica Moore, each story in Maylis de Kerangal’s \u003ci\u003eCanoes\u003c\/i\u003e is a faceted and brilliant gem . . . This collection is something to be savored . . . de Kerengal’s gustatory palette is vivid and intense, suited to her characters as they find themselves in absurd, surreal, or impossibly difficult predicaments.\"—Michelle Bailat-Jones, \u003ci\u003eNecessary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This stylish collection opens with a narrator getting her jaw molded while a dentist shows her a photo of 'a human jawbone from the mesolithic,' an image that establishes the oral and historical fixations that give de Kerangal’s mostly plotless stories their energy. A deep sensitivity to language elevates the mundanity of these narrators’ lives.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"De Kerangal’s voice in \u003ci\u003eCanoes\u003c\/i\u003e and Moore’s, as it did in her translation of de Kerangal’s \u003ci\u003eEastbound\u003c\/i\u003e, exudes exquisite language captured in balanced phrasing, nuanced word choice, and vivid specific details. Together they develop indelible characters and evoke a mesmerizing group of provocative, unforgettable stories.\" —Robert Allen Papinchak, \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The characters in Maylis de Kerangal’s haunting stories are impassioned detectives or solitary archaeologists taking the measure of those traces by which we find our way. In their immersive observation they track the minute changes that transform everything they thought they knew about the way we’re both jettisoned and anchored by those around us.\" —Jim Shepard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Maylis de Kerangal’s [\u003ci\u003eCanoes\u003c\/i\u003e] collects small, poignant worlds. Spun in long, stream-of-consciousness sentences, her text snakes like a stream. The stories’ common thread is voices—changed, unrecognized, lost . . . Jessica Moore’s translation is seamless and poetic.\" —Theodore Anderson, \u003ci\u003eNewcity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"De Kerangal’s masterful collection examines alienation and grief at pivotal moments in her characters’ lives . . . Each story is richly complex, and the collection’s recurring canoe imagery gives it the feel of a treasure map . . . This understated volume packs a powerful punch.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The stories capture fleeting ideas and moments . . . Above all there’s an appealing tone of exploration, of reaching for the ineffable in the past, present, and future . . . An accomplished braid of explorations into sound and significance.\" \u003ci\u003e—Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Exquisite . . . De Kerangal pairs gloriously sensuous and caustically incisive visual descriptions of interiors, cities, highways, sprawling suburbs, land, and sky with uncanny and revealing soundscapes that capture the layered timbres of nature, humans, and machines. These unusual and vibrant stories are poetically recalibrating, droll, and intriguing.\" —Donna Seaman, \u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003estarred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These are beautiful stories; their narrators are thoughtful, interested in the world around them and the remains below their feet, hidden from view but crucial and foundational . . . [\u003ci\u003eCanoes\u003c\/i\u003e] traffics in a kind of matter-of-fact, unsentimental wonder—the kind of work that makes you more alert, critical, and curious.\" —Chloe Pfeiffer, \u003ci\u003eBookBrowse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaylis de Kerangal\u003c\/b\u003e is the award winning and critically acclaimed author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eNaissance d’un pont\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eBirth of a Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e), winner of the Prix Franz Hessel and Prix Médicis; \u003ci\u003eRéparer les vivants\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire and whose English translation, \u003ci\u003eThe Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, was one of the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e’s Ten Best Fiction Works of 2016 and the winner of the 2017 Wellcome Book Prize; and \u003ci\u003eUn chemin de tables\u003c\/i\u003e, whose English translation, \u003ci\u003eThe Cook\u003c\/i\u003e, was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors’ Choice. \u003ci\u003eMend the Living \u003c\/i\u003ewas Longlisted for the Booker International Prize 2016.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessica Moore\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, singer-songwriter, translator, and author. A former Lannan writer-in-residence and winner of a PEN America Translation Award for her translation of \u003ci\u003eTurkana Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, by Jean-François Beauchemin, her first collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eEverything, now, \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in 2012. She lives in Toronto.","brand":"Archipelago","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301109944549,"sku":"NP9781953861962","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781953861962.jpg?v=1767723347","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/canoes-isbn-9781953861962","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}