"I began to think about its double nature: on the one hand you have an organ in your body and on the other you have a symbol of love. From that time I started to pursue the image of a heart crossing the night from one body to another. It is a simple narrative structure but itâs open to a lot of things. I had the intuition that this book could give form to my intimate experience of death."
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On the heart as the focus for her book Mend the Living in ââWhat is a heart? You have an organ in your body and you have a symbol of loveââ in The Guardian (2017 Apr 28)
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