The heart, p.21
The Heart, page 21
CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Epigraph
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
A Note About the Author and Translator
Permissions Acknowledgments
Copyright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Copyright © 2014 by Éditions Gallimard
Translation copyright © 2016 by Sam Taylor
All rights reserved
Originally published in French in 2014 by Verticales, an imprint of Éditions Gallimard, France, as Réparer les vivants
English translation published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First American edition, 2016
Owing to limitations of space, all acknowledgments for permission to reprint previously published material appear at the back of the book.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kerangal, Maylis de.
[Réparer les vivants. English]
The heart: a novel / Maylis de Kerangal; translated by Sam Taylor. — First American edition.
pages cm
“Originally published in French in 2014 by Verticales, an imprint of Éditions Gallimard, France, as Réparer les vivants” — Verso title page.
ISBN 978-0-374-24090-5 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-374-71328-7 (e-book)
1. Heart—Transplantation—Patients—Fiction. 2. Organ donors—Fiction. 3. Psychological fiction. I. Taylor, Sam, 1970– translator. II. Title.
PQ2671.E64 R4713 2016
843'.914—dc23
2015023340
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Maylis de Kerangal, The Heart


