The boy with the cuckoo-clock heart
By: Mathias Malzieu ; translated from the French by Sarah Ardizzone.
Contributors: Ardizzone, Sarah, 1970-
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780701183691
Subjects: Heart, Artificial -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Mécanique du cœur.
Description: Edinburgh, 1874: Little Jack is born with a frozen heart and immediately undergoes a life-saving operation — the implantation of a cuckoo-clock in his chest. From then on his days all begin with a wind-up, in this dark, tender fairy tale spiced with devilish humour.
Notes: "First published in French as La Mécanique du cœur by Flammarion in 2007"--T.p. verso.