The A26 by Pascal Garnier,
Melanie Florence, translator.
Gallic Books 2013.
Roads. Railway lines. Lives.
Where do they begin and end?
But end they must. Dead.
It’s the early nineties and a motorway is carving its way through the northeast French countryside. The construction of the A26 (the autoroute des Anglais as it now known) in its impersonal way inevitably affects the communities in its vicinity, disrupting lives in unforeseen ways and, in this novella, becoming an unexpected harbinger of death.
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