One heart stops while another starts again. Recipient of prestigious awards including the Prix Médicis and the Notre Dame de Sion Literary Award, French author Maylis de Kerangal was choosen the 2016 International Booker Prize Longlist with her novel Mend the Living. Through careful medical detail and research, the novel explores the fragile line between life and death with extraordinary precision and lyricism. Kerangal will meet the readers to speak about fate, coincidence, and the rhythm of the human heart.