The heart
by Maylis de Kerangal, Jessica Moore, and Jordi Martín Lloret
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"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"--
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Heart, Organ donors, Transplantation, Patients, Fiction, Romance literature, FICTION / Literary, Literary, Fiction, psychological, Heart -- Transplantation -- Patients -- Fiction, Organ donors -- Fiction, Greffés du cœur -- Romans, nouvelles, etc, Donneurs d'organes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc, Heart -- Transplantation -- PatientsShowing 4 featured editions. View all 17 editions?
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"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.
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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.
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