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Nov 9, 2024 | 
texarkanagazette.com | Maylis de Kerangal |May-lee Chai
Maylis de Kerangal's new story collection, "Canoes," is a moving, surprising exploration of grief and friendship across seven short stories and one novella, set in France, Canada and the United States. Beautifully translated from the French by Jessica Moore, the stories plunge the reader into the sensory experiences of varied protagonists, who include translators, students and even a UFO investigator. What they share is an affinity for the sounds of the world around them.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
kansascity.com | Maylis de Kerangal
Maylis de Kerangal's new story collection, "Canoes," is a moving, surprising exploration of grief and friendship across seven short stories and one novella, set in France, Canada and the United States. Beautifully translated from the French by Jessica Moore, the stories plunge the reader into the sensory experiences of varied protagonists, who include translators, students and even a UFO investigator. What they share is an affinity for the sounds of the world around them.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Maylis de Kerangal
About This Book
Summary
Book Summary
A 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.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Julie Sedivy |Maylis de Kerangal |Tony Tulathimutte |Cebo Campbell
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
startribune.com | May-lee Chai |Maylis de Kerangal
Much lauded in France and internationally, de Kerangal has been awarded the Prix Médicis. Her 2012 novel, “Eastbound,” was translated into English last year and was one of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 best books of 2023. In all the stories, epiphany comes when the protagonists least expect it, and often with sly humor. The unnamed Frenchwoman in “Mustang” begins to find harmony in her life through interactions with her gun-toting American driving instructor, Martina.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Alan Hollinghurst |Virginie Despentes |Maylis de Kerangal |Mark Haddon
Richard Price. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-16815-5Price (The Whites, as Harry Brandt) delivers a remarkable excavation of urban angst in this story of a five-story East Harlem tenement building that collapses, killing six of its tenants.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Alan Hollinghurst |Virginie Despentes |Maylis de Kerangal |Mark Haddon
Ann Schlee. McNally Editions, $18 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-9613-4109-8This masterful novel from Schlee (1934–2023), shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981 following its publication in the U.K., chronicles an unmarried middle-aged woman’s repressed emotions. It’s 1851 and Charlotte Morrison is sailing along the Rhine with her censorious but beloved older brother, Rev.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Alan Hollinghurst |Virginie Despentes |Maylis de Kerangal |Mark Haddon
Chloe Seager. Morrow, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-330709-4Seager (the Emma Nash novels), a literary agent and YA author, makes her adult debut with an effervescent chronicle of two women’s inverse dating lives and their illuminating friendship. Holly, an aspiring fashion designer in London, suspects her boyfriend of nine years, Will, is finally ready to propose. Much to her dismay, he instead suggests they open their relationship.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Alan Hollinghurst |Virginie Despentes |Maylis de Kerangal |Mark Haddon
Adam Haslett. Little, Brown, $29 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-57471-6Haslett’s irresistable latest (after Imagine Me Gone) revolves around the mystery of a man’s teenage trauma. Peter, a 40-year-old immigration lawyer, works on asylum seekers’ cases in New York City. In interlocking threads, Haslett delves into Peter’s work on the case of a gay Albanian immigrant and his upbringing with his mother Ann, an Episcopal priest.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Michel Houellebecq |Alan Hollinghurst |Virginie Despentes |Maylis de Kerangal
Michel Houellebecq, trans. from the French by Shaun Whiteside. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $32 (544p) ISBN 978-0-374-60842-2Houellebecq (Submission) wraps a ponderous family drama around a plodding near-future political thriller. It’s November 2026 and Paris has been rocked by a series of mysterious cyberattacks and disturbing deepfake videos, including an apparent decapitation of France’s finance minister, Bruno Juge.
