Claire Messud Books
The last life
A novel about French colonists in Algeria and their difficult adjustment to France after Algerian independence. It is narrated by a girl whose grandfather buys a hotel on the Riviera and forgetting...
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From the widely acclaimed author of "The Last Life" come two extraordinary novellas that explore isolation, loneliness, and love. Far-flung settings and universal themes give a sweeping appeal to C...
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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...
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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 he...
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