Mend the living
By: Maylis de Kerangal ; translated from the French by Jessica Moore
Contributors: Moore, Jessica, 1978- translator
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780857053879; 9780857053862
Subjects: Heart; Fiction; Transplantation; Patients; Organ donors
Work titles: Réparer les vivants
Description: A twenty-four-hour whirlwind of death and life. This is the heart of Simon Limbeau. This is the black box of his twenty-year-old body, circulating five litres of blood each minute, compressing itself a hundred thousand times each day. No bigger than a fist, yet it is capable of pumping blood through sixty thousand miles of blood vessels. This heart has leaped, swelled, melted, sunk, and now, on this glacial winter night, it rests and recharges, readying itself for the day ahead. 5.50 a.m. This is his heart. And here is its story.
Notes: "First published in the French language as Réparer les vivants by Éditions Gallimard, 2014"--Title page verso.

Originally published: Paris : Éditions Gallimard, 2014.

Translated from French.