Birth of a bridge
Subtitle: a novel
By: Maylis de Kerangal ; translated by Jessica Moore
Contributors: Moore, Jessica, 1978- translator
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780889228894
Subjects: Bridges; Fiction; Design and construction
Work titles: Naissance d'un pont
Description: From Maylis de Kerangal comes this story of a dozen men and women – engineers, designers, machinery operators, cable riggers – all employees of an international consortium charged with building a bridge somewhere in a mythical and fantastic California. Their collective effort to complete the megaproject recounts one of the oldest of human dramas, to domesticate – and to radically transform – our world through built form, with all the dramatic tension it brings: a threatened strike, an environmental dispute, sabotage, accidents, career moves, and love affairs … Here generations and social classes cease to exist, and everyone and everything converges toward the bridge as metaphor, a cross-cultural impression of America today.
Notes: Translation from the French of: Naissance d'un pont.