Mend the living / Maylis de Kerangal ; translated from the French by Jessica Moore.

  • Kerangal, Maylis de.
Date:
2016
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

Réparer les vivants. English

Description

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.

Publication/Creation

London : MacLehose Press, Quercus, 2016.

Physical description

236 pages ; 22 cm

Notes

"First published in the French language as Réparer les vivants by Éditions Gallimard, 2014"--Title page verso.
Longlisted for Wellcome Book Prize 2017.

Reproduction note

Originally published: Paris : Éditions Gallimard, 2014.

Language note

Translated from the French.

Type/Technique

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    VNK.AI
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 085705385X
  • 9780857053855