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Translation copyright © 2016 by Sam Taylor
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Originally published in French in 2014 by Verticales, an imprint of Éditions Gallimard, France, as Réparer les vivants
English translation published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First American edition, 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kerangal, Maylis de.
[Réparer les vivants. English]
The heart: a novel / Maylis de Kerangal; translated by Sam Taylor. — First American edition.
pages cm
“Originally published in French in 2014 by Verticales, an imprint of Éditions Gallimard, France, as Réparer les vivants” — Verso title page.
ISBN 978-0-374-24090-5 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-374-71328-7 (e-book)
1. Heart—Transplantation—Patients—Fiction. 2. Organ donors—Fiction. 3. Psychological fiction. I. Taylor, Sam, 1970– translator. II. Title.
PQ2671.E64 R4713 2016
843'.914—dc23
2015023340
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