by Claire Messud · Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt · tapa dura · ISBN 9783421042040
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«Des Kaisers Kinder» is the literary fiction novel by Claire Messud, published by Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt in hardcover (541 pages, in German).
Marina, Danielle and Julius, three friends since college, make their way in privileged New York amid ambitions and disappointments. Marina finishes her first book, Danielle works in television and Julius is a freelance critic. The arrival of Marina's cousin, Frederick «Bootie» Tubb, triggers events that force them to rethink their lives.
Original title: The Emperor's Children (2006); German edition published in 2007. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2006; winner of the Massachusetts Book Award and the NAIBA Book of the Year in 2007.
For book clubs and readers of literary fiction interested in generational portraits and contemporary New York.
Claire Messud is an American/Canadian/French novelist and literature and creative writing professor. She is best known as the author of the novel The Emperor's Children (2006).
