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    Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of Mend the Living with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal, a thought-provoking examination of the aftermath of a tragic car accident as a committed medical team races against time to carry out a life-saving heart transplant. The novel explores the ethical and emotional issues related to transplantation, shows us the power of organ donation to change lives, and emphasises the importance of living life to the fullest. Mend the Living won the Wellcome Book Prize 2017 for works that engage with themes related to health and medicine. Its author, Maylis de Kerangal, has written over 15 books to date, a number of which have received prestigious literary awards in her native France.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateFeb 7, 2018
    ISBN9782808007306
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      Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

      French writer

      Born in Toulon in 1967.

      Notable works:

      Birth of a Bridge (2010, first English translation published 2014), novel

      Mend the Living (2014, first English translation published 2016), novel

      Maylis de Kerangal initially worked for the French publishing company Éditions Gallimard, before founding her own publishing house focused on children’s literature, Le Baron Perché. She now works full-time as a writer and has published over 15 books to date, all of which received significant media attention upon their release in her native France. Her first novel, Corniche Kennedy, was published in 2008 to popular and critical acclaim, and she won the Prix Médicis for Birth of a Bridge in 2010 and the Prix Landerneau for Tangentes vers l’est in 2012. Her greatest success, however, came in 2014, when her captivating novel Mend the Living (also published in English as The Heart: A Novel) won multiple literary awards.

      A heart’s journey

      Genre: novel

      Reference edition: De Kerangal, M. (2016) Mend the Living. Trans. Moore, J. London: MacLehose Press.

      1st edition: 2014

      Themes: bereavement, organ donation, heart, transplant, life, death

      Mend the Living follows a heart during the process of a transplant over a period of 24 hours. It is a polyphonic novel, featuring the voices of the loved ones of Simon (a young man who has been left braindead after a car accident and whose heart is about to be transplanted into someone else), the doctors, nurses and surgeons who treat him, and the patient who receives

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