Maylis de Kerangal Libri

Tre adolescenti di ritorno da una sessione di surf su un furgoncino tappezzato di sticker, tre big wave rider, esausti, stralunati ma felici, vanno incontro a un destino che sarà fatale per uno di loro. Incidente stradale, trauma cranico, coma irreversibile, e Simon Limbres entra nel limbo macabramente preannunciato nel suo cognome. Da quel momento, una macchina inesorabile si mette in moto: bisogna salvare almeno il cuore. La scelta disperata del trapianto, straziante e inevitabile, è rimessa nelle mani dei genitori. Intorno a loro, come in un coro greco, si muovono le vite degli addetti ai lavori che faranno sì che il cuore di Simon continui a battere in un altro corpo. Tra accelerazioni e pause, ventiquattro ore di suspense, popolate dalle voci e le azioni delle persone che ruotano attorno a Simon, genitori, dottori, infermiere, équipe mediche, fidanzata, tutti protagonisti dell'avventura, privatissima e al tempo stesso collettiva, di salvare un cuore, non solo organo, ma sede e simbolo della vita.

"In this swirling, gripping tale, a young Russian conscript and a French woman come together in a crowded compartment of the Trans-Siberian railroad, each of them fleeing to the east for their own reasons"-- Provided by publisher

A twenty-four-hour whirlwind of death and life. This is the heart of Simon Limbeau. This is the black box of his twenty-year-old body, circulating five litres of blood each minute, compressing itself a hundred thousand times each day. No bigger than a fist, yet it is capable of pumping blood through sixty thousand miles of blood vessels. This heart has leaped, swelled, melted, sunk, and now, on this glacial winter night, it rests and recharges, readying itself for the day ahead. 5.50 a.m. This is his heart. And here is its story.

"A slim, bountiful, beautifully written (and gorgeously translated) 'Portrait of the Chef as a Young Man.'" --Nancy Klinke, The New York Times Book Review One of BBC Culture's Ten Books to Read this March and The Rumpus Book Club Pick for March Maylis de Kerangal follows up her acclaimed novel The Heart with a dissection of the world of a young Parisian chef More like a poetic biographical essay on a fictional person than a novel, The Cook is a coming-of-age journey centered on Mauro, a young self-taught cook. The story is told by an unnamed female narrator, Mauro’s friend and disciple who we also suspect might be in love with him. Set not only in Paris but in Berlin, Thailand, Burma, and other far-flung places over the course of fifteen years, the book is hyperrealistic—to the point of feeling, at times, like a documentary. It transcends this simplistic form, however, through the lyricism and intensely vivid evocative nature of Maylis de Kerangal’s prose, which conjures moods, sensations, and flavors, as well as the exhausting rigor and sometimes violent abuses of kitchen work. In The Cook, we follow Mauro as he finds his path in life: baking cakes as a child; cooking for his friends as a teenager; a series of studies, jobs, and travels; a failed love affair; a successful business; a virtual nervous breakdown; and—at the end—a rediscovery of his hunger for cooking, his appetite for life.

An aesthetic and existential coming-of-age novel exploring the apprenticeship of a young female painter, Paula Karst, who is enrolled at the famous Institut de Peinture in Brussels. With the attention of a documentary filmmaker, de Kerangal follows Paula's apprenticeship, punctuated by brushstrokes, hard work, sleepless nights, sore muscles, and long, festive evenings. After completing her studies at the Institute, Paula continues to practice her art in Paris, in Moscow, then in Italy on the sets of great films, all as if rehearsing for a grand finale: at a job working on Lascaux IV, a facsimile reproduction of the world's most famous paleolithic cave art and the apotheosis of human cultural expression.

The multi-award-winning compact epic of passion, ambition and the American Dream.

A beautiful collection of seven short stories and a novella themed around women's voices from the author of Mend the Living and Painting Time

Po ranním výletu k moři má skupina mladých surfařů nehodu v dodávce, která se pro jednoho z nich stává smrtelnou. Jeho rodiče se musí vyrovnat nejen s faktem, že syn se nachází na přístrojích ve stavu mozkové smrti, ale jsou zároveň postaveni před těžkou volbu – zda svolit k transplantaci orgánů a pomoci tak zachránit životy jiných.Román význačné francouzské autorky je podán mimořádně originálním a čtivým stylem. Čtenář je v proudu vědomí všech zúčastněných, od kamarádů přes rodiče až po ošetřující personál a čekatele na transplantaci, bezprostředně vtažen do děje a prožívání aktérů. Autorka přitom čerpá z nejlepší francouzské stylistické tradice a jejímu poetickému obrazu lidských prožitků ve vypjatém okamžiku se dostalo velkého uznání kritiky i mnoha nadšených čtenářů jak ve Francii, tak v zahraničí. Kerangal virtuózně uchopuje bohatý rejstřík témat – od lidských emocí přes mravní dilemata až po reflexi toho, jak nové možnosti lékařství mění náš vztah k tělu a jeho důstojnosti či jak se proměňují rituály obklopující v naší kultuře smrt. Kniha byla přeložena do více než 30 jazyků a mimo jiné byl na jejím základě natočen úspěšný film Život za život v režii Katell Quillévéré.

In "Eine transsibirische Fahrt ins Ungewisse" erzählt Maylis de Kerangal von Alioscha, einem Zwangsrekruten, der in der transsibirischen Eisenbahn desertieren will. Er trifft auf Hélène, eine ältere Französin, mit der er eine geheimnisvolle Verbindung spürt. Gemeinsam stehen sie vor der Herausforderung, einen Fluchtplan zu verwirklichen.