Mend the Living (29 page)

Kerangal, Maylis de

[Réparer les vivants. English]

Mend the living : a novel / Maylis de Kerangal ; translated by Jessica Moore.

Translation of: Réparer les vivants.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-0-88922-973-0 (paperback). – ISBN 978-0-88922-974-7 (EPUB).  – ISBN 978-1-77201-044-2 (Kindle).  – ISBN 978-1-77201-045-9 (PDF)

I. Moore, Jessica, 1978–, translator II. Title. III. Title: Réparer les vivants. English.

PQ2671.E64R4613 2015    843’.92
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Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

Mend the Living

What it is ...

On this night ...

It's Chris who drives ...

Pierre Revol has started his shift ...

We have someone for you ...

Marianne Limbeau enters the hospital ...

He knew right away who she was ...

But he almost missed the call ...

The street too is silent ...

The room is bathed in half-light ...

Cordelia Owl plumps up the pillow ...

Revol walks back down ...

They hold hands ...

Juliette is in her room ...

Outside, the unyielding sky ...

– He'll be a donor ...

The day Thomas acquired the goldfinch ...

Sean and Marianne leave the room ...

She got off the RER at dawn ...

As it happens ...

Lou ...

Another call, another telephone ...

The Margherita splats against ...

The retrieval teams arrive ...

Marianne doesn't sleep ...

At the Pitié ...

Another operating room ...

The plane lands in Bourget ...

Translator's Note

About the Translator

About the Author

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