Mend the Living

Maylis de Kerangal

Original title: Réparer les vivants

Also published as: The heart

earliest edition we have, 2014 Angle Editorial, 2017 paperback 256 pages

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 ni...

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Editions we hold

The Heart audiobook · 2020 · Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781094108582
Réparer les vivants edition · 2020 · GALLIMARD · 304 pages · 9782072895746
Heart paperback · 2017 · Picador USA · 256 pages · 9781250117915
Reparar els vius paperback · 2017 · Angle Editorial · 256 pages · 9788415307822
The heart edition · 2016 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 242 pages · 9780374240905
Mend the Living edition · 2016 · Quercus · 240 pages · 9780857053855
Mend the Living edition · 2016 · Talonbooks, Limited · 224 pages · 9780889229730
Heart edition · 2016 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9780374713287
The Heart hardcover · 2016 · Thorndike Press Large Print · 347 pages · 9781410491282
Reparar a los vivos paperback · 2016 · Editorial Anagrama S.A. · 256 pages · 9788433978097
Mend the living edition · 2016 · MacLehose Press · 236 pages · 9780857053879
Reparar els vius edition · 2015 · Angle · 9788416139330

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