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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.
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- Pagine: 218
- Data di uscita: 05-05-2016
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