Eastbound

Maylis de Kerangal spent her childhood in Le Havre, France, and now lives in Paris. Her novel Naissance d'un pont won the Prix Franz Hessel and Prix Médicis in 2010, and was published in English as Birth of a Bridge. In 2014, her fifth novel Réparer les vivants was published to wide acclaim in France, winning the Grand Prix RTL-Lire award and the student choice novel of the year from France Cultur...