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World Book Club: Maylis De Kerangal: Mend the Living

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Maylis de Kerangal

04/09/2021 GMT

Maylis De Kerangal: Mend the Living

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Award-winning French writer Maylis de Kerangal talks about her novel Mend the Living

Award-winning French writer Maylis de Kerangal talks about her novel Mend the Living.

World Book Club this month talks to the award-winning French writer Maylis de Kerangal about her remarkable and haunting novel Mend the Living.

After a horrific car accident on the Normandy coast surfer Simon Limbeau is rushed to hospital where his devastated parents are later told that he is on life-support, but is brain-dead. His heart, however, is still beating perfectly and could be donated to save someone’s life. They are faced with an agonising choice.

Mend the Living is the story of Simon Limbeau’s heart – and the story of all the lives that are turned upside down in the 24 hours between the accident that cuts short his life and offers hope of new life to another.

(Picture: Maylis de Kerangal. Photo credit: Philippe Quaisse.)

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