{"product_id":"heart","title":"Heart","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eHeart\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMaylis De Kerangal\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781250117915\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePicador\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2017\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e256\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Bill Gates' \"Five Best Summer Reads\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe basis for the critically-acclaimed film, \u003ci\u003eHeal the Living\u003c\/i\u003e, directed by \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatell \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuillévéré and starring Tahar Rahim and Emmanuelle Seigner\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAlbertine Prize Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWinner of the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWellcome Book Prize and the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrench-American Foundation Translation Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJust before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. While driving home exhausted, the boys are involved in a fatal car accident on a deserted road. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one goes through the windshield. The doctors declare him brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital, but his heart is still beating. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Heart \u003c\/i\u003etakes 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. In gorgeous, ruminative prose, it examines the deepest feelings of everyone involved as they navigate decisions of life and death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs stylistically audacious as it is emotionally explosive, \u003ci\u003e The Heart \u003c\/i\u003emesmerized readers in France, where it has been hailed as the breakthrough work of a new literary star. 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Heart | Maylis De Kerangal | Paperback | 9781250117915 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1716729","offer_id":48313188778136,"sku":"1716729","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/9181IOJzkjL.jpg?v=1773163373","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/heart","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}