Claire Messud: 13 books

Book cover of La ragazza che brucia
by Claire Messud
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 31, 2018

«Messud è una narratrice eccezionale. Con la sua prosa amplifica e illumina il sentimento che lega le due protagoniste del romanzo. » Los Angeles Times «Messud è una maestra dell’introspezione psicologica. Un mystery ad alta tensione, in perfetto equilibrio tra detto e suggerito. » Chicago...
Book cover of Ploughshares Summer 2016 Guest-Edited by Claire Messud & James Wood
by Claire Messud, James Wood, Viet Thanh Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016

The Summer 2016 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. This 45th...
Book cover of La paura del desiderio
by Claire Messud
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 23, 2016

«Molto ben congegnato... Messud possiede un’intelligenza letteraria di gran lunga superiore alla maggior parte degli scrittori della sua generazione». «San Francisco Chronicle» «Il talento particolare di Claire Messud sta nella capacità di tratteggiare i contorni dell’esilio del mondo...
Book cover of This Is Not A Border

This Is Not A Border

Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

by J.M. Coetzee, Michael Ondaatje, Alice Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017

Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world. The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert...
Book cover of The Burning Girl: A Novel
by Claire Messud
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017

**A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist "[A] masterwork of psychological fiction.… Messud teases readers with a psychological mystery, withholding information and then cannily parceling it out." —Chicago Tribune** Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school....
Book cover of The Hunters
by Claire Messud
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2002

This pair of novellas, Claire Messud’s third published work, is true to her most respected form: here the inner lives of women are revealed with precision and “piercing authenticity” (New York Times). "A Simple Tale" is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, an aging Ukrainian...
Book cover of La donna del piano di sopra
by Claire Messud
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 10, 2013

2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Nora Eldridge, insegnante sulla quarantina, è da tempo scesa a compromessi con il sogno di essere un’artista di successo, una madre e una donna amata. È piuttosto diventata la «donna del piano di sopra», un’amica affidabile ma sempre spettatrice dei successi...
Book cover of I figli dell'imperatore
by Claire Messud
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 14, 2019

«I figli dell'imperatore è un romanzo sorprendente, magistrale, sulle vite intrecciate di tre amici alla ricerca del successo a New York City.» San Francisco Chronicle «Una scrittrice di perfezione quasi miracolosa.» The New York Times Book Review «Claire Messud fa parte di quella...
Book cover of La donna del martedì
by Claire Messud
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 16, 2015

Quando, la mattina di un martedì, Maria entra come sempre nell’appartamento di Mrs Ellington per fare le pulizie, e vede la striscia di sangue che imbratta la parete dall’ingresso alla camera da letto, pensa che sia arrivata la fine. Invece trova la vecchia signora addormentata nel suo grande...
Book cover of The Woman Upstairs
by Claire Messud
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013

Told with urgency, intimacy, and piercing emotion, this *New York Times *bestselling novel is the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and abandoned by a desire for a world beyond her own. Nora Eldridge is a reliable, but unremarkable, friend and neighbor, always on the fringe...
Book cover of The Last Life

The Last Life

A Novel

by Claire Messud
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2000

A “mesmerizing” novel of a family falling apart by the New York Times bestselling author of The Burning Girl. Set in colonial Algeria, the south of France, and New England, and narrated by a fifteen-year-old girl with a ruthless regard for the truth, The Last Life is the tale of the LaBasse...
Book cover of When the World Was Steady: A Novel
by Claire Messud
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017

A PEN/Faulkner Award finalist about two sisters’ divergent paths, from the author of The Burning Girl and The Emperor’s Children. In this highly acclaimed novel, life isn’t all Emmy and Virginia Simpson anticipated. When Emmy’s marriage ends, she flees her home in Sydney to “find...
Book cover of The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006

A bestselling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way—and not—in New York City. There is beautiful, sophisticated Marina Thwaite—an “It” girl finishing her first book; the daughter of Murray Thwaite,...
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