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A family torn apart by war, geography, politics, religion, over the course of three generations

Deze vreemde bewogen geschiedenis leidt je van het warme Algerije tot aan het besneeuwde Canada en verhaalt over de twintigste eeuw, door de lens van

Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state—separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a compl

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Praise for Claire Messud: "I can think of few writers capable of such thrilling seriousness expressed with so lavish a gift." - Rachel Cusk, Evening

Moving between colonial Algeria, the south of France, and New England, The Last Life is Claire Messud’s “masterly” (Wall Street Journal) sophomore nov

A jewel of a novel by New York Times-bestselling author Claire Messud When the Armstrong family moves from New York at the dawn of the 1970s, Austral

The stunning new novel from Claire Messud, author of The Emperor's Children, a top ten NYT bestseller

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist "[A] masterwork of psychological fiction.... Messud teases readers with a psychological mystery, withholding

In Meisje in brand van Claire Messud zijn Julia Robertson en Cassie Burnes al sinds de kleuterklas bevriend; een vriendschap waarin ze alles met elkaa

A collection of personal and critical essays on everything from childhood to womanhood, literature to visual arts and the relationship between form an

A bracing, hypnotic coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor's Children.

In her fiction, Claire Messud "has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives" (Ruth Franklin, New York

'A profound book about the intrication of literature and life, about the modest, miraculous ways art helps us to live' Garth GreenwellIn her fiction,

A bracing and hypnotic portrait of the complexities of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of The Woman Upstairs.

In the glittering tradition of Edith Wharton, The Emperor's Children examines life in upper-crust Manhattan, and tells a compelling story of ambition,