Birth of a Bridge (23 page)

© 2010 Éditions Gallimard and Maylis de Kerangal

Translation © 2014 Jessica Moore

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First printing: 2014
Electronic edition: 2014

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Cover design by Chloë Filson

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Talonbooks gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, and the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.

This work was originally published in French as
Naissance d’un pont
by Éditions Gallimard, Paris, France, in 2010. This book has been supported by the Centre national du livre, Paris, and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as part of the translation program. In addition, the translator thanks the Collège international des traducteurs.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Kerangal, Maylis de

[Naissance d’un pont. 
 
English]

          Birth of a bridge : a novel / Maylis de Kerangal ; translated by Jessica Moore.

Translation of: Naissance d’un pont.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-0-88922-889-4 (pbk.).—ISBN 978-0-88922-890-0 (epub)

          I. Moore, Jessica, 1978–, translator  II. Title. 
 
III. Title: Naissance d’un pont. 
 
English.

PQ2711.E73N3513 2014                        843’.92                        C2014-903247-1
 

                                                                                                   C2014-903248-X