Maylis de Kerangal - The Heart

Maylis de Kerangal is the author of several novels in French: Je marche sous un ciel de traîne (2000), La vie voyageuse (2003), Corniche Kennedy (2008), and Naissance d’un pont (published in English as Birth of a Bridge , winner of the Prix Franz Hessel and Prix Médicis in 2010). She has also published a collection of short stories, Ni fleurs ni couronnes (2006), and a novella, Tangente vers l’est (winner of the 2012 Prix Landerneau). In addition, she has published a fiction tribute to Kate Bush and Blondie titled Dans les rapides (2007). In 2014, her fifth novel, Réparer les vivants (published in the United States as The Heart ), was published to wide acclaim, winning the Grand Prix RTL–Lire and the Student Choice Novel of the Year from France Culture and Télérama. She lives in Paris, France. You can sign up for email updates here.

A NOTE ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Sam Taylor is an author and translator. He is the author of the novels The Republic of Trees, The Amnesiac , and The Island at the End of the World , and has translated several books from the French, including Laurent Binet’s HHhH , Hubert Mingarelli’s A Meal in Winter , and Joel Dicker’s The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair . You can sign up for email updates here.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint lyrics from “La Nuit Je Mens”: words and music by Alain Bashung, Jean-Louis Pierot, Edith Fambuena, and Jean Marie Fauque. Copyright © 1998 Universal Music Publishing SAS and Chaterton Prod. All rights for Universal Music Publishing SAS in the U.S. and Canada controlled and administered by Universal Musica, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Reprinted by permission of Hal Leonard Corporation.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Dr. Wendy McLaughlin and Dr. Michael Metz for their advice on the medical terminology used in the book.