Maylis De Kerangal: 4 books

"A slim, bountiful, beautifully written (and gorgeously translated) 'Portrait of the Chef as a Young Man.'" --Nancy Klinke, The New York Times Book Review One of BBC Culture's Ten Books to Read this March and The Rumpus Book Club Pick for March Maylis de Kerangal follows up...

Na een fanatieke sessie golfsurfen aan de Normandische kust rijdt op een koude winterochtend het bestelbusje van drie jonge surfers tegen een betonnen mast. De negentienjarige Simon Limbres wordt in comateuze toestand naar de intensive care van het ziekenhuis vervoerd, waar de dienstdoende arts constateert...

Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. Returning home, exhausted, the driver lets the car drift off the road into a tree. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one is sent through the windshield. He is declared brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital. His...

From one of the most exciting novelists writing in France today comes this literary saga of a dozen men and women – engineers, designers, machinery operators, cable riggers – all employees of the international consortium charged with building a bridge somewhere in a mythical and fantastic California. Told...