by Claire Messud · Pan Macmillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330375641
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«The Last Life» is the literary fiction novel by Claire Messud, published by Pan Macmillan in hardcover (384 pages, in English).
Teenage Sagesse narrates the life of her family, French-Algerian emigrants between the south of France and New England, marked by the colonial past and the stories they tell to sustain themselves. A shot from the grandfather uncovers secrets: a disowned son, a sick brother, a mother who pretends to be French, and the collapse of the family hotel.
The work received the RSL Encore Award in 2000; the Pan Macmillan edition was published in 2000 and reprinted in 2007.
For readers of literary fiction and coming-of-age novels about families marked by the past and identity.
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).
