Claire Messud

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.

A bracing and hypnotic portrait of the complexities of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of The Woman Upstairs. Julia Robinson and Cassie Burnes have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge: while Julia comes from a stable, happy, middle-class family, Cassie never knew her father, who died when she was an infant, and has an increasingly tempestuous relationship with her single mother, Bev. When Bev becomes involved with the mysterious Anders Shute, Cassie feels cruelly abandoned. Disturbed, angry and desperate for answers, she sets out on a journey that will put her own life in danger, and shatter her oldest friendship. Compact, compelling, and ferociously sad, The Burning Girl is at once a story about childhood, friendship and community, and a complex examination of the stories we tell ourselves about childhood and friendship. Claire Messud brilliantly mixes folklore and Bildungsroman, exploring the ways in which our made-up stories, and their consequences, become real.

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 city, a generation, a

Narrativa

Emmy Simpson quitte l'Angleterre pour l'Australie avec son mari et sa fille. Mais son mariage se solde par une humiliante séparation. Elle décide de partir en quête d'elle-même à Bali. Sa soeur cadet

En La última vida se recrea, de modo autobiográfico, la historia de Sagesse LaBasse, una adolescente francesa, hija de un argelino repatriado en Francia y una norteamericana. La crisis de identidad que padece la joven Sagesse tiene mucho que ver con la historia de la familia LaBasse, una historia marcada por la huida y el desarraigo del inmigrante que se asienta en un nuevo pais con nuevas pruebas que superar. El mundo y los ferreos valores de la familia de Sagesse se desmoronan cuando, una noche de verano, el abuelo de la protagonista dispara contra un grupo de jovenes entre los que se encuentra su propia nieta. A partir de este suceso, Sagesse inicia un fascinante viaje a traves de si misma y de cuanto la rodea: la insatisfaccion resignada de su madre, el retraso mental de su hermano pequeño, el hermetismo y la ambicion de su padre, la hipocresia y la ocultacion de la verdad de sus abuelos. Nada es lo que parece y Sagesse comienza a descubrir que todo lo que ocurre a su alrededor es deuda del pasado incierto que definio a la familia LaBasse.

Un guide intemporel pour les artistes et penseurs, les lettres de Rilke sont une source d’inspiration sur la solitude et la créativité.

Juin 1940, Paris tombe aux mains des Allemands. Gaston Cassar décide de rester à son poste d’attaché naval à Salonique et de renvoyer sa femme Lucienne et leurs enfants, François et Suzanne, en Algér

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2024 BOOKER LONGLISTED THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORYMessud is a breathtaking writer . . . a beautiful - and beautifully sustained - howl of fresh, fierce, furious rageINDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYNora 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. Rezas 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.Riveting . . . Messud is adept at evoking complex psychological territoryNEW YORKERMessuds prose is a delight . . . addictive, memorable, intense LIONEL SHRIVER, FINANCIAL TIMESThis is a faultless, suspenseful novelMAIL ON SUNDAYQuietly menacingGOOD HOUSEKEEPING

Manhattan, début 2001. Trois jeunes trentenaires, amis depuis luniversité, se retrouvent déchirés entre leurs rêves et les exigences du réel : Marina, apprentie journaliste, écrasée par son père Murr

Amies depuis toujours, Julia et Cassie savent tout l’une de l’autre et se fraient ensemble un chemin vers l’adolescence. L’été de leurs douze ans, elles découvrent, enfoui au milieu d’une forêt, un a

Les vies d’Emmy et Virginia Simpson ne correspondent en rien à ce qu’elles s’étaient imaginé. Emmy, la cadette, a quitté l’Angleterre pour l’Australie avec son mari et sa fille, cochant rapidement to

Nora ressemble à votre voisine du dessus, celle qui vous sourit chaleureusement dans l’escalier mais dont vous ignorez tout. Lorsque la belle Sirena, accompagnée de son mari et de son fils, fait irru

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2024 BOOKER LONGLISTED THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORYA bracing and hypnotic portrait of the complexities of female friendshipMessud is a storyteller: the ability to compel and hold the readers interest may not be the crown and summit of novel writing, but its the beginning and end of it Ursula K. Le GuinJulia Robinson and Cassie Burnes have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge: while Julia comes from a stable, happy, middle-class family, Cassie never knew her father, who died when she was an infant, and has an increasingly tempestuous relationship with her single mother, Bev. When Bev becomes involved with the mysterious Anders Shute, Cassie feels cruelly abandoned. Disturbed, angry and desperate for answers, she sets out on a journey that will put her own life in danger, and shatter her oldest friendship. Compact, compelling, and ferociously sad, The Burning Girl is at once a story about childhood, friendship and community, and a complex examination of the stories we tell ourselves about childhood and friendship. Claire Messud brilliantly mixes folklore and Bildungsroman, exploring the ways in which our made-up stories, and their consequences, become real.

RESUMEN

Nora Eldridge es una maestra de primaria de treinta y siete años en Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tiempo atrás, albergó la ilusión de ser artista, pero hoy se conforma con dedicarse a sus alumnos y en ser la ''mujer de arriba'', una amiga confiable y una vecina ordenada siempre al margen de los logros de los demas. Un dia, a su clase llega Reza Shahid, un niño encantador que parece salido de un cuento de hadas. El y sus padres, Skandar, un erudito libanes y profesor de la Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris; y Sirena, una glamurosa artista italiana, han venido a Boston gracias a una beca de Skandar para estudiar en Harvard. Cuando Reza es acosado por sus compañeros en el patio de la escuela llamandolo ''terrorista'', Nora se ve obligada a entrar en el complejo mundo de la familia Shahid, a la que pronto idealiza. Nora acabara obsesionada con cada uno de ellos, hasta que la ambicion descuidada de Sirena conduce a una traicion devastadora. Contada con intimidad y emocion penetrante, esta historia de obsesion y realizacion artistica explora la emocion y el costo devastador de ceder a las propias pasiones.Nora Eldridge es una maestra de primaria de treinta y siete años en Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tiempo atrás, albergó la ilusión de ser artista, pero hoy se conforma con dedicarse a sus alumnos y en ser la ''mujer de arriba'', una amiga confiable y una vecina ordenada siempre al margen de los logros de los demas. Un dia, a su clase llega Reza Shahid, un niño encantador que parece salido de un cuento de hadas. El y sus padres, Skandar, un erudito libanes y profesor de la Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris; y Sirena, una glamurosa artista italiana, han venido a Boston gracias a una beca de Skandar para estudiar en Harvard. Cuando Reza es acosado por sus compañeros en el patio de la escuela llamandolo ''terrorista'', Nora se ve obligada a entrar en el complejo mundo de la familia Shahid, a la que pronto idealiza. Nora acabara obsesionada con cada uno de ellos, hasta que la ambicion descuidada de Sirena conduce a una traicion devastadora. Contada con intimidad y emocion penetrante, esta historia de obsesion y realizacion artistica explora la emocion y el costo devastador de ceder a las propias pasiones.