by Christiaan Barnard · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422606604
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«Tensión» is the suspense novel by Christiaan Barnard, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (440 pages, in Spanish).
The novel draws on Barnard's experience as a cardiac surgeon to build a plot of intrigue and suspense in the medical field. The novel itself warns that events and characters are fictional, but the narrative is sprinkled with autobiographical elements from the specialist who performed the first heart transplant.
The work was published in 1974 as The Unwanted: A Novel; this Spanish edition is from 1975. Siegfried Stander collaborated on this work and the translation is by J. Ferrer Aleu.
For readers of medical suspense and for those who want to discover Barnard's literary side.
Christiaan Neethling Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation. On 3 December 1967, Barnard transplanted the heart of accident victim Denise Darvall into the chest of 54-year-old Louis Washkansky, who regained full consciousness and was able to talk easily with his wife, before dying 18 days later of pneumonia, largely brought on by the anti-rejection drugs that suppressed his immune system. Barnard had told Mr. and Mrs. Washkansky that the operation had an 80% chance of success, an assessment which has been criticised as misleading. Barnard's second transplant patient, Philip Blaiberg, whose operation was performed at the beginning of 1968, returned home from the hospital and lived for a year and a half.
