Maylis de Kerangal is the author of several novels in French, including Je marche sous un ciel de traîne, La vie voyageuse, Corniche Kennedy, and Naissance d'un pont (published in English as Birth of a Bridge and winner of the Prix Franz Hessel and the Prix Médicis in 2010). She has also published a collection of short stories, Ni fleurs ni couronnes, and a novella, Tangente vers l'est. In 2014, her novel Réparer les vivants (The Heart) won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire and the Student Choice Novel of the Year from France Culture and Télérama. She lives in Paris.
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Just 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 decla... SEE MORE