In a 24-hour whirlwind of death and life, Simon and Claire’s lives will be fatefully joined, in Maylis de Kerangal’s extraordinary story
Maylis de Kerangal
Maylis de Kerangal is the multi-award-winning author of several novels and short stories
Her novel Naissance d’un Pont, translated as Birth of a Bridge, won both the Prix Franz Hessel and Prix Médicis in 2010. Mend the Living was published in French in 2014 and won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire award and the Student Choice Novel of the Year from France Culture and Télèrama. She lives in Paris, France.