Fix the living

The effect of the novel is laid in just 24 hours, but what hours! Simon Limbre, the young surfer, got into a car accident, returning home after riding in Lamanes. His skull is crushed, the brain died. But modern equipment still supports life in an unconscious body. Urgently caused by the mother, the father and bride of the young man do not want to put up with loss. After all, Simon is still with them, he breathes, and the head physician of the hospital asks to give his heart and other organs in patients in need of operations. How can you decide to give my son"s heart with a completely unfamiliar woman, Claire Interan, even if she is a mother of three children? How to make a terrible sentence? ..
Kerangal describes very different heroes, each of them has its own history of life, and they are all connected with one thing - while still a harsh heart of the dead surfista. The reader flashes a variety of paintings: the hunting and breeding of scokes in Algeria, football matches, the death of Zhanna d"Ark on a fire, the manufacture of kayak, surfing. In fact, everything is interconnected in life - and surfing, and organ transplantation ...
This book is about the value of human life, about the dispute of mind with a heart, about the living heart ... No wonder at the end of the Roman Surgeon, transplancing the heart of Simon Limbra Claire Interman , shouts, as if the commander going to the attack: Fire! Fire!. After all, this fire returns life.