Mend the living / Maylis de Kerangal ; translated from the French by Jessica Moore.
By: Kerangal, Maylis de.
Contributor(s): Moore, Jessica [translator.].
Publisher: London : Maclehose Press, 2016Publisher: ©2016Description: 236 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780857053879.Uniform titles: Réparer les vivants. English Subject(s): Heart -- Transplantation -- Patients -- Fiction | Organ donors -- FictionGenre/Form: Print books.Summary: 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.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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"First published in the French language as Réparer les vivants by Éditions Gallimard, 2014"--Title page verso.
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.
Originally published: Paris : Éditions Gallimard, 2014.