A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Maylis de Kerangal is the author of several novels: Je marche sous un ciel de traîne (2000), La vie voyageuse (2003), Corniche Kennedy (2008), and Naissance d’un pont (winner of the Prix Franz Hessel and the Prix Médicis in 2010; published in English as Birth of a Bridge). In 2014, her fifth novel, Réparer les vivants (published in the United States in 2016 as The Heart), received wide acclaim and won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire and the Student Choice Novel of the Year from France Culture and Télérama. She lives in Paris. You can sign up for email updates here.

A NOTE ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Sam Taylor is the author of three novels and has translated more than thirty books from the French, including Laurent Binet’s HHhH, Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny, and Joel Dicker’s The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair. His translation of Maylis de Kerangal’s The Heart won the French-American Foundation’s Translation Prize and the Lewis Galantière Award. You can sign up for email updates here.