{"product_id":"9781250117915","title":"The Heart: A Novel","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\u003eQuillévéré 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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024659333360,"sku":"9781250117915","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250117915_p0.jpg?v=1763702816","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250117915","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}