Maylis de Kerangal is the author of several novels in French, including JE MARCHE SOUS UN CIEL DE TRAÎNE (2000), LA VIE VOYAGEUSE (2003), CORNICHE KENNEDY (2008) and NAISSANCE D'UN PONT (published in English as BIRTH OF A BRIDGE, winner of the Prix Franz Hessel and Prix Médicis in 2010). She has also published a collection of short stories, NI FLEURS NI COURONNES (2006), and a novella, TANGENTE VERS L'EST (winner of the 2012 Prix Landerneau). In addition, she has published a fiction tribute to Kate Bush and Blondie titled DANS LES RAPIDES (2007). In 2014, her fifth novel, RÉPARER LES VIVANTS (THE HEART), was published to 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, France.

Books by Maylis de Kerangal

The Heart

written by Maylis de Kerangal, translated by Sam Taylor - Fiction

An international bestseller --- THE HEART takes place over the 24 hours surrounding a fatal accident and a resulting heart transplant as life is taken from a young man and given to a woman close to death.