Bibliograph

The heart, by Maylis de Kerangal ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor

Type

Label

The heart, by Maylis de Kerangal ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The heart

Oclc number

945571332

Responsibility statement

by Maylis de Kerangal ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print peer picks

Summary

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. The Heart 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

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