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. Translated by Jessica Moore.
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.
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