02040cam a2200325 i 4500 296104402 TxAuBib 20160211120000.0 150729s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015023340 9780374240905 0374240906 DLC eng rda DLC TxAuBib rda eng fre Kerangal, Maylis de. The heart [BOOK] : a novel / Maylis de Kerangal ; translated by Sam Taylor. Réparer les vivants. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. 242 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Originally published in French in 2014 by Verticales, an imprint of Éditions Gallimard, France, as Réparer les vivants" -- Verso title page. "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. This novel 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. 20160211. Organ donors Fiction. Heart Transplantation Patients Fiction. Psychological fiction. Taylor, Sam, 1970-