Used book – Réparer les vivants (Mend the Living), Maylis de Kerangal

"Simon's heart migrated to another part of the country, his kidneys, liver and lungs went to other provinces, they sped towards other bodies." *Réparer les vivants* is the novel of a heart transplant. Like an epic poem, it weaves together the presences and spaces, the voices and actions that will unfold over exactly twenty-four hours. A novel of tension and patience, of panicked accelerations and meditative pauses, it traces a metaphysical adventure, both collective and intimate, where the heart, beyond its organic function, remains the seat of emotions and the symbol of love.