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Mend the Living

English, Maylis de Kerangal, 2016
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Synopsis: From a fatal accident to a life-saving operation, Maylis de Kerangal, one of the brightest and boldest writers of modern literary fiction, returns with the epic story of a heart transplant.

Authors: Maylis de Kerangal; Jessica Moore (Translator)

From the author: Maylis de Kerangal spent her childhood in Le Havre, France. Her novel, Birth of a Bridge, won the Prix Franz Hessel and Prix Médicis in 2010. Her novella Tangente vers l'est won the 2012 Prix Landerneau. In 2014, her fifth novel, Mend the Living, was published to wide acclaim, winning the Grand Prix RTL-Lire award and the student choice novel of the year from France Culture and Télèrama. Upon publication in the UK, it was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 and won the Wellcome Book Prize 2017.

Key specifications

Genre
Novels + stories
Language
English
Author
Maylis de Kerangal
Year
2016

General information

Item number
12783789
Publisher
Quercus
Category
Fiction
Release date
24.2.2020

Book properties

Genre
Novels + stories
Subtopic
Classic novels
Language
English
Author
Maylis de Kerangal
Year
2016

Voluntary climate contribution

CO₂ emissions
0,4 kg
Climate contribution
EUR 0,12

Product dimensions

Height
196 mm
Width
128 mm
Weight
171 g

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  • 1.Pattloch
    0 %
  • 1.Picador Uk
    0 %
  • 1.Quercus
    0 %
  • 1.Riva
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  • 1.Rowohlt Berlin
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    0 days
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How often is a product of this brand in the «Fiction» category returned?

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  • 51.Penguin Random House
    0,7 %
  • 51.Piper
    0,7 %
  • 51.Quercus
    0,7 %
  • 51.Reclam
    0,7 %
  • 51.S.Fischer
    0,7 %
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