Birth of a bridge / Maylis de Kerangal ; translated from the French by Jessica Moore.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: London : Maclehose Press, 2017. Description: 277 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780857053817Uniform titles: Naissance d'un pont. English Subject(s): Bridges -- Design and construction -- Fiction | California -- FictionLOC classification: PQ2671.E64 | N3513 2017Summary: From Maylis de Kerangal comes this story of a dozen men and women {u2013} engineers, designers, machinery operators, cable riggers {u2013} 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 {u2013} and to radically transform {u2013} 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 {u2026} 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.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Translate to : Naissance d'un pont.
From Maylis de Kerangal comes this story of a dozen men and women {u2013} engineers, designers, machinery operators, cable riggers {u2013} 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 {u2013} and to radically transform {u2013} 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 {u2026} 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.
Translated from the French.
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