Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague, friend, employee. She teaches at an elementary school where the children and the parents adore her; but her real passion is her art, which she makes alone, unseen. One day Reza Shahid appears in her classroom: eight years old, a perfect, beautiful boy. Reza's father has a fellowship at Harvard and his mother is a glamorous and successful installation artist. Nora is admitted into their charmed circle, and everything is transformed. Or so she believes. Liberation from her old life is not quite what it seems, and she is about to suffer a betrayal more monstrous than anything she could have imagined.
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Claire Messud vive en Cambridge, Massachusetts, con su marido y sus dos hijos. Su primera novela, When the World Was Steady, y The Hunter (una colección de novelas cortas) fueron finalistas del PEN/Faulkner Award. Su segunda novela, The Last Life, fue considerada mejor libro del año según Publishers Weekly y «Editor’s Choice» según The Village Voice. Todas las obras de la autora han sido destacadas por el New York Times («Notable Books of the Year»). Messud ha recibido becas (Guggenheim, Radcliffe Fellowships) y el Strauss Living Award de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Letras. Galaxia Gutenberg ha publicado en español sus novelas Los hijos del emperador,La niña en llamas, La vecina de arriba y Esta extraña y azarosa historia.