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Mend the Living is the story of a heart transplant, centred around Simon Limbeau, the boy whose heart is given, and his family. Taking place within exactly twenty-four hours, the novel traces the thrill of an early-morning winter surf session, the terrible accident that follows, and all the urgency and compassion of the hospital workers, and shock and grief of Simon¿s family as they negotiate the question of organ donation. Maylis de Kerangal ...

Eastbound maps the fast-paced story of two fugitives on the Trans-Siberian Railway, where a desperate Russian conscript hopes a chance encounter with an older French woman will offer him a line of flight.

An aesthetic and existential coming-of-age novel exploring the apprenticeship of a young female painterIn Maylis de Kerangal's Painting Time, we are introduced to the burgeoning young artist Paula Karst, who is enrolled at the famous Institut de Peinture in Brussels. Unlike the friends she makes at school, Paula strives to understand the specifics of what she's painting-replicating a wood's essence or a marble's wear requires method, technique...

Interweaves the stories of a dozen men and women as they construct a bridge of mythic proportions somewhere in California.