Mend the Living

@2@@20@Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize 2017.@21@@3@@2@@20@Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016. @21@@3@@2@@20@Now a major French film, REPARER LES VIVANTS/HEAL THE LIVING, directed by Katell Quillevere and starring Emmanuelle Seigner.@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@A twenty-four-hour whirlwind of death and life.@21@@3@@2@In the depths of a winter's night, the heart of Simon Limbeau is resting, readying itself for the day to come. In a few hours' time, just before six, his alarm will go off and he will venture into the freezing dawn, drive down to the beach, and go surfing with his friends. A trip he has made a hundred times and yet, today, the heart of Simon Limbeau will encounter a very different course.@3@@2@But for now, the black-box of his body is free to leap, swell, melt and sink, just as it has throughout the years of Simon's young life.@3@@2@5.50 a.m.@3@@2@This is his heart.@3@@2@And here is its story.@3@@2@@20@Translated from the French by Jessica Moore@21@@3@

Product details

• Authors: Maylis De Kerangal, Maylis de Kerangal
• Assisted by: Jessica Moore (Translation), Moore Jessica (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9780857053855
• ISBN: 978-0-85705-385-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; France, FICTION / Medical, Fiction in translation, TRAVEL / Europe / France, MEDICAL / Surgery / Transplant, Transplant Surgery, Cardiovascular medicine