The heart
By: Maylis de Kerangal ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor
Contributors: Taylor, Sam, 1970- translator
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780374240905
Subjects: Heart; Patients; Transplantation; Organ donors; Fiction
Work titles: Réparer les vivants
Description: "Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. Returning home, exhausted, the driver lets the car drift off the road into a tree. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one is sent through the windshield. He is declared brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital. His heart is still beating. The Heart takes place over the twenty-four hours surrounding a fatal accident and a resulting heart transplant as life is taken from a young man and given to a woman close to death. In gorgeous, ruminative prose it examines the deepest feelings of everyone involved--grieving parents, hardworking doctors and nurses--as they navigate decisions of life and death. As stylistically audacious as it is emotionally explosive, Maylis de Kerangal's The Heart has mesmerized readers in France, where it has been hailed as the breakthrough work of a new literary star"--

"An audacious novel about the 24 hours surrounding a heart transplant"--
Notes: "Originally published in French in 2014 by Verticales, an imprint of Éditions Gallimard, France, as Réparer les vivants"--Title page verso.

Translation from the French of: Réparer les vivants.