One of Bill Gates\' Five Best Summer Reads The basis for the critically-acclaimed film, Heal the Living , directed by Katell Quill v r and starring Tahar Rahim and Emmanuelle Seigner Albertine Prize Finalist Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing.
With the precision of a surgeon and the language of a poet, de Kerangal has made a major contribution to both medicine and literature with an epic tale of grief, hope, and survival..
As stylistically audacious as it is emotionally explosive, The Heart mesmerized readers in France, where it has been hailed as the breakthrough work of a new literary star.
In gorgeous, ruminative prose, it examines the deepest feelings of everyone involved as they navigate decisions of life and death.
The Heart takes place over the twenty-four hours surrounding the resulting Heart transplant, as life is taken from a young man and given to a woman close to death.
The doctors declare him brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital, but his Heart is still beating.
Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one goes through the windshield.
While driving home exhausted, the boys are involved in a fatal car accident on a deserted road.
One of Bill Gates\' Five Best Summer Reads The basis for the critically-acclaimed film, Heal the Living , directed by Katell Quill v r and starring Tahar Rahim and Emmanuelle Seigner Albertine Prize Finalist Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing
