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Mend the Living

Maylis de Kerangal

Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize 2017.

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016.

Now a major French film, REPARER LES VIVANTS/HEAL THE LIVING, directed by Katell Quillevere and starring Emmanuelle Seigner.

A twenty-four-hour whirlwind of death and life.


In the depths of a winter's night, the heart of Simon Limbeau is resting, readying itself for the day to come. In a few hours' time, just before six, his alarm will go off and he will venture into the freezing dawn, drive down to the beach, and go surfing with his friends. A trip he has made a hundred times and yet, today, the heart of Simon Limbeau will encounter a very different course.

But for now, the black-box of his body is free to leap, swell, melt and sink, just as it has throughout the years of Simon's young life.

5.50 a.m.

This is his heart.

And here is its story.

Translated from the French by Jessica Moore

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : JUN 23, 2016
  • Imprint : MacLehose Press
  • Page Extent : 240
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780857053855
  • Price : INR 599
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Maylis de Kerangal

Maylis de Kerangal spent her childhood in Le Havre France. Her novel Birth of a Bridge was the winner of the Prix Franz Hessel and Prix M?dicis in 2010. Her novella Tangente vers l'est was the winner of the 2012 Prix Landerneau. In 2014 her fifth novel Mend the Living (R?parer les vivants) was published to wide acclaim winning the Grand Prix RTL-Lire award and the student choice novel of the year from France Culture and T?l?rama. It was long listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015.

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