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    The Gift Of Life

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    ISBN: 9781527298125
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    AuthorStein, Mel
    Pub Date03/03/2022
    BindingPaperback
    Pages448
    Publisher: EOE EDUCATION-UK
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    The gripping story of the world's first heart transplant and the two men, one white, one black, who made it possible, while threatened by the authorities of an unjust apartheid state.

    In 1960s Apartheid South Africa, Black Lives did not matter. Black people were denied all basic freedoms including the right to advanced education.


    Most people know of South African surgeon, Christiaan Barnard, who carried out the very first successful heart transplant in the
    world. But very few people know the name of Hamilton Naki. Naki, an uneducated black gardener at Barnard's university, doubled up as his laboratory assistant and turned out to have a remarkable natural aptitude for surgery.

    Even fewer people know that Naki, not Barnard, carried out most of the numerous animal transplant experiments that came before the first human transplant and helped to develop its successful methodology. And sadly, a mere handful of people have heard of Denise Darville, whose tragic car crash made her our first heart donor.


    This fluent, moving novel documents the unlikely pairing of Barnard and Naki and their convergence with the short life of
    Denise - to change the future of heart surgery forever.


    An accurate story with a most original focus, it tells the revelatory truth behind a landmark achievement in modern surgery.
    It is a gripping and affecting novel simply written in a fluent voice of controlled indignation and compassion.


    This is a story of burning interest to a wide range of readers. Readers with scientific and political interests, black history, human rights, the general history of injustice throughout the world, will all be gripped by it.