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Copyright © 2014 by Éditions Gallimard

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

Owing to limitations of space, all acknowledgments for permission to reprint previously published material appear at the back of the book.

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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