Claire Messud

"Będziesz się rozkoszować każdą stroną". Washington PostTroje trzydziestolatków w przededniu wydarzeń z 11 września 2001 roku.Danielle, producentka telewizyjna, marzy o pracy przy ambitnych projektach, tymczasem zajmuje się takimi tematami jak liposukcja.Julius jest krytykiem literackim i choć kreuje się na znaną osobistość, w rzeczywistości...

Nora Eldridge, a 37-year-old elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is on the verge of disappearing. Having abandoned her desire to be an artist, she has become the "e;woman upstairs,"e; a reliable friend and tidy neighbour always on the fringe of others' achievements. Then into her classroom walks a new pupil, Reza...

In this highly acclaimed novel by the author of The Emperor's Children, life isn't all Emmy and Virginia Simpson might have hoped. When Emmy's marriage to an Australian man ends, she flees her home in Sydney for the tropical paradise of Bali to ';find herself'only to become embroiled with an eclectic crew of...

The Emperor's Children is a richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortuneabout 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 a city, a generation, and...

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor's Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own. Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compromised her dream to be a successful artist, mother and...