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  • The Woman Upstairs

    by Claire Messud ...
    Nora Eldridge, a 37-year-old elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is on the verge of disappearing. Having abandoned her desire to be an artist, she has become the "woman upstairs," a reliable friend and tidy neighbour always on the fringe of others' achievements. Then into her classroom walks a new pupil, Reza Shahid, a child who enchants as if from a fairy tale. He and his ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • This Strange Eventful History

    A Novel

    by Claire Messud ...
    **Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize • Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize • Winner of the 2024 Deborah Pease PrizeA 2024 New York Times Best Historical Fiction Book • One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2024 • A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 • A Boston Globe Best Book of 2024 • A Financial Times Best Book of 2024 • A Vogue Best Book of 2024 • An Oprah Daily Best book of the Year • A ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • The Emperor's Children

    by Claire Messud ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year • A bestselling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way—and not—in New York City.“A masterly comedy of manners. . . . Splendid.”—The New York Times Book Review“Ambitious, glamorous, and gutsy. . . . A marvel of bold momentum and kinetic ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Time, Now

    Reclaiming the Stories of Our Lives

    by Claire Messud ...
    Booker-nominated author Claire Messud makes a timely, impassioned argument for the importance of narrative in the age of digital overwhelm.A writing professor asks her students to share a childhood memory. They are stranded: all they can recall are family videos, photos resurfaced by an algorithm—moments already framed before they became memories at all.For the last one hundred years, technology ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • The Hunters

    by 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).In two jewel-like novellas, Claire Messud explores isolation and the nature of love. “A Simple Tale” is the moving story of Maria Poniatowski, an aging Ukrainian woman who, after liberation from servitude to the Germans, struggles with a ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    This Strange Eventful History

    by Claire Messud ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 33 min

    An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest contemporary novelists.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 Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This Strange Eventful History, told with ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Burning Girl

    A Novel

    by 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**Julia and Cassie 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 ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

  • Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write

    An Autobiography in Essays

    by Claire Messud ...
    A glimpse into a beloved novelist’s inner world, shaped by family, art, and literature.In her fiction, Claire Messud "has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives" (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud’s own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD

  • The Last Life

    by 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).Moving between colonial Algeria, the south of France, and New England, The Last Life is Claire Messud’s “masterly” (Wall Street Journal) sophomore novel of lies and ghosts, love and honor. When shots from a grandfather’s rifle shatter the LaBasse ... Read more

    $17.49 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • When the World Was Steady

    A Novel

    by Claire Messud ...
    A PEN/Faulkner Award finalist about two sisters’ divergent paths, from the author of The Burning Girl and The Emperor’s Children.In this highly acclaimed novel, life isn’t all Emmy and Virginia Simpson anticipated. When Emmy’s marriage ends, she flees her home in Sydney to “find herself” on the island of Bali—only to become embroiled with a crew of international misfits and smugglers. Her prim and ... Read more

    $17.49 CAD

  • Ploughshares Summer 2016 Guest-Edited by Claire Messud & James Wood

    by Claire Messud, James Wood, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Lydia Davis, Peter Bichsel, Kamel Daoud, Carys Davies, Viet Dinh, Amity Gaige, Georgi Gospodinov, Cate Kennedy, Glyn Maxwell, Melissa Pritchard, Weike Wang, Gunnhild Øyehaug, Chauna Craig, Emily Fox Gordon, Lucy Biederman ...
    The Summer 2016 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.This 45th anniversary issue, guest edited by novelist Claire Messud and literary critic James Wood, includes new work ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • The Use of Man

    by Aleksandar Tisma ...
    Translated by Bernard Johnson ...
    The Use of Man starts with an unexpected discovery. World War II is ending. Sredoje Lazukić has been fighting all through it. Now, as one of the victorious Partisans, he has come home to Novi Sad. He visits the house he grew up in. Strangers nervously show him around. He looks up the mother of Milinko, his best friend. Milinko’s girlfriend, Vera, was the daughter of a Jew, a bookish businessman. ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD