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The basis for the critically-acclaimed film, Heal the Living, directed by Katell Quillvr and starring Tahar Rahim and Emmanuelle SeignerAlbertine Prize FinalistWinner of the Wellcome Book PrizeJust 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.
About the Author
Maylis de Kerangal is the author of several novels in French: Je marche sous un ciel de traîne (2000) , La vie voyageuse (2003) , Corniche Kennedy (2008) , and Naissance d'un pont (translated here as Birth of a Bridge, winner of the Franz Hessel Prize and the Médicis Prize in 2010) . She has also published a collection of short stories, Ni fleurs ni couronnes (2006) , and a novella, Tangente vers l'est (winner of the 2012 Landerneau Prize) . In addition, she has published a fiction tribute to Kate Bush and Blondie titled Dans les rapides (2007) . In 2014, her fifth novel, Réparer les vivants, was published to wide acclaim, winning the Grand Prix RTL-Lire and the Student Choice Novel of the Year from France Culture and Télérama. She lives in Paris, France.
