{"product_id":"heart-book-maylis-de-kerangal-9781250117915","title":"The Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Bill Gates' Five Best Summer Reads\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe basis for the critically-acclaimed film, \u003ci\u003eHeal the Living\u003c\/i\u003e, directed by \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatell \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuillevere and starring Tahar Rahim and Emmanuelle Seigner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlbertine Prize Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWellcome Book Prize and the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrench-American Foundation Translation Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. While driving home exhausted, the boys are involved in a fatal car accident on a deserted road. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one goes through the windshield. The doctors declare him brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital, but his heart is still beating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Heart \u003c\/i\u003etakes place over the twenty-four hours surrounding the resulting heart transplant, as life is taken from a young man and given to a woman close to death. In gorgeous, ruminative prose, it examines the deepest feelings of everyone involved as they navigate decisions of life and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs stylistically audacious as it is emotionally explosive, \u003ci\u003e The Heart \u003c\/i\u003emesmerized readers in France, where it has been hailed as the breakthrough work of a new literary star. With the precision of a surgeon and the language of a poet, de Kerangal has made a major contribution to both medicine and literature with an epic tale of grief, hope, and survival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49539925115153,"sku":"GOR008814693","price":10.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49647011365137,"sku":"GOR009739223","price":16.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50372514447633,"sku":"CIN1250117917A","price":3.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50784374161681,"sku":"CIN1250117917VG","price":4.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51021805977873,"sku":"NIN9781250117915","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52106152870161,"sku":"CIN1250117917G","price":3.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1250117917.jpg?v=1751049541","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/heart-book-maylis-de-kerangal-9781250117915","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}