Danielle, a junior television producer, is on the hunt for the documentary idea that will make her reputation; Marina, the beautiful daughter of a famous and wealthy liberal journalist and intellectual, is desperate to prove her worth - while unsure exactly of how this is to be achieved; Julius, a freelance writer of devastating book reviews, is ...
This one volume collects four of Nmirovskys earlier novels--all of them newly translated, and all, except "David Golder," available in English for the first time.
"The Last Life" tells the story of the teenage Sagesse LaBasse and her family, French Algerian emigrants haunted by their history, brought to the brink of destruction by a single reckless act. Observed with a fifteen-year-old's ruthless regard for truth, it is a novel about secrets and ghosts, love and honour, the stories we tell ourselves and the ...
Two sisters approach middle age. Emmy, once confident and--as her mother noted--thick-skinned, is shattered by unexpected divorce. Virginia, sensitive and introverted, chafes against the rigid life she has made for herself. Emmy travels to Bali, Virginia to the Isle of Skye, and each sister finds herself faced with changes--changes that allow them ...
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 Claire Messud's work.
Claire Messud's two exquisite short novels, acclaimed for their subtlety, their insight and their dazzling prose, are destined to become masterpieces of twenty-first-century literature. "Claire Messud's two brilliant novellas are exquisitely positioned: poised, subtle and perfect, they communicate with each other across expanses of silence like ...
In June, 2006, Picador launch "Picador Shots", a new series of pocket-sized books priced at GBP1. The "Shots" aim to promote the short story as well as the work of some Picador's greatest authors. They will be contemporarily packaged but ultimately disposable books that are the ideal literary alternative to a magazine. In "The Professor's History" ...
The Emperors Children is a richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune 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. In this tour de force, the celebrated author Claire Messud brings to life
Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irene Nemirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, "Suite Francaise". But "Suite Francaise" was only a coda to the brief yet remarkably prolific career of this nearly forgotten, yet hugely talented novelist, who fled Russia for Paris after the Revolution and died at Auschwitz at ...
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