EAN: 9781250117915

THE HEART - MAYLIS DE KERANGAL KARTONIERT (TB)

One of Bill Gates' Five Best Summer Reads The basis for the critically-acclaimed film  Heal the
Living  directed by Katell Quillévéré and starring Tahar Rahim and Emmanuelle Seigner Albertine
Prize Finalist Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation
Prize Just before dawn on a Sunday morning  three teenage boys go surfing. While driving home
exhausted  the boys are involved in a fatal car accident on a deserted road. Two of the boys
are wearing seat belts  one goes through the windshield. The doctors declare him brain-dead
shortly after arriving at the hospital  but his heart is still beating. The Heart takes place
over the twenty-four hours surrounding the 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 as they navigate decisions of life and death. As
stylistically audacious as it is emotionally explosive  The Heart mesmerized readers in France
where it has been hailed as the breakthrough work of a new literary star. With the precision of
a surgeon and the language of a poet  de Kerangal has made a major contribution to both
medicine and literature with an epic tale of grief  hope  and survival.

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