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    This Strange Eventful History

    Claire Messud

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

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    This Strange Eventful History

    Claire Messud

    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 complicated colonial homeland, and, after…

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    This Strange Eventful History

    Claire Messud

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

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    This Strange, Eventful History

    Claire Messud

    In this highly acclaimed novel, life isn't all Emmy and Virginia Simpson anticipated. When Emmy's marriage to an Australian man ends, she flees her home in Sydney to "find herself"…

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    The Woman Upstairs

    Claire Messud

    * The new novel from Claire Messud, author of The Emperor’s Children, a top ten NYT bestseller in hardback and paperback in the US

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    Strangers on a Train: A Virago Modern Classic

    Patricia Highsmith

    The classic thriller behind the Hitchcock film, and Highsmith’s first novel - soon to be remade by David Fincher, director of Gone Girl, with a screenplay by Gillian Flynn.

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    This Strange, Eventful History

    Claire Messud

    In this highly acclaimed novel, life isn't all Emmy and Virginia Simpson anticipated. When Emmy's marriage to an Australian man ends, she flees her home in Sydney to "find herself"…

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    This Strange, Eventful History

    Claire Messud

    In this highly acclaimed novel, life isn't all Emmy and Virginia Simpson anticipated. When Emmy's marriage to an Australian man ends, she flees her home in Sydney to "find herself"…

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    Atonement: Introduction by Claire Messud

    Ian McEwan

    In the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her…

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    The Emperor’s Children

    Claire Messud

    A magnificent novel of fate and fortune–of love and friendship, family and secrets, of striving and glamour, disaster and promise–this is a tour de force that brings to life a…

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    The Hunters

    Claire Messud

    From the acclaimed author of The Emperor’s Children and The Burning Girl, The Hunters is a work of near-miraculous perfection (Miranda Seymour, New York Times).

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    When the World Was Steady: A Novel

    Claire Messud

    A PEN/Faulkner Award finalist about two sisters’ divergent paths, from the author of The Burning Girl and The Emperor’s Children.

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    The Last Life

    Claire Messud

    A mesmerizing novel from the acclaimed author of The Emperor’s Children that is as artful as it is affecting (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).

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    A Dream Life

    Claire Messud

    A jewel of a novel by New York Times bestseller Claire Messud

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    The Woman Upstairs

    Claire Messud

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

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    The Woman Upstairs

    Claire Messud

    * The new novel from Claire Messud, author of The Emperor’s Children, a top ten NYT bestseller in hardback and paperback in the US

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    Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography Through Essays

    Claire Messud

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

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    The Burning Girl

    Claire Messud

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

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    The Burning Girl: A Novel

    Claire Messud

    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

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    The Burning Girl: A Novel

    Claire Messud

    A New York Times Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist A bracing, hypnotic coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends, from the New York Times best-selling author…

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    Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays

    Claire Messud

    A glimpse into a beloved novelist’s inner world, shaped by family, art, and literature.

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    David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair: Introduction by Claire Messud

    Irene Nemirovsky

    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.

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    Atonement

    Ian McEwan

    On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their…

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    The Emperor’s Children

    Claire Messud

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

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    Marlene Dumas: Myths & Mortals

    Claire Messud,Marlene Dumas

    Dumas presents an expansive series of 32 works on paper originally created for a Dutch translation of William Shakespeare’s narrative poem Venus & Adonis (1593) by Hafid Bouazza, accompanied by…

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    Quartet: A Novel

    Jean Rhys

    [Quartet’s] abiding power arises from [Jean Rhys’s] ability to convey the complex vectors of desire and repulsion that move between the characters, distorted by the intractable demands of convention, even…

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    Four Novels

    Claire Messud,Irene Nemirovsky

    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…

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    When Memory Comes: The Classic Memoir

    Saul Friedlander

    Translation of: Quand vient le souvenir–.

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