My Heart

‘What is more, the ease with which these strangers shift my body through space creates an impression of my own weightlessness. I am what is left over of me, my mortal remains, as I lie in my bathrobe, under which I am naked.’

Taken from ‘My Heart’ by Semezdin Mehmedinović in Granta 120: Medicine, available for download here and in bookshops.

Illustration by Matthew Green.

You can also see Semezdin Mehmedinović at the following event:

Hippocrates Cafe: The Granta Edition
13 September, 5.30 p.m., NRB Auditorium, Research Building, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3970 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington, DC 20057. Free.

Granta 120: Medicine contributor Semezdin Mehmedinović reads from and explores ‘My Heart’, his intimate exploration of the alienation that comes with a medical crisis, where, from one instant to the next, you can go from being a person to being a patient as part of Georgetown University Medical School’s literature and music salon, the Hippocrates Cafe.