The heart / Maylis de Kerangal ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kerangal, Maylis de, author.

Contributor:

Taylor, Sam, 1970- translator.

Standardized Title:

Réparer les vivants. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Heart--Transplantation--Patients--Fiction.

Heart.

Organ donors--Fiction.

Organ donors.

Heart--Transplantation--Patients.

Genre:

Psychological fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

242 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

"An audacious novel about the 24 hours surrounding a heart transplant"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Originally published in French in 2014 by Verticales, an imprint of Éditions Gallimard, France, as Réparer les vivants"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9780374240905

0374240906

OCLC:

915159408

Publisher Number:

40025733614