SIMON LIMBRES' HEART WILL BEAT IN CLAIRE MEJAN'S BODY IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. ON THAT DAY, LIFE WILL BE NOTHING BUT SIMON'S DEATH.
This is the story of the day Simon wakes up to surf. It is the story of a day when he would later fall into an irreversible coma, when his family would shoulder the burden of accepting an organ transplant, when doctors would shape other lives through one death, when destruction and hope walk arm in arm.
As emotionally moving as it is stylistically daring, Repairing the Living won almost all of France's prestigious literary prizes the year it was published and was subsequently nominated for the Man Booker Prize. Maylis de Kerangal's unique narrative allows us to enter the minds of each character, to look at life - and death - from a place we have never looked, from a moment we have never been tested.