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43 produkter
Denna märkliga händelserika historia
Inbunden, 2026
267 kr
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Nominerad till Bookerpriset 2024 Under sju decennier kämpar familjen Cassar för att hitta sin plats i tillvaron – separerade i andra världskrigets kaos, på flykt från ett komplicerat kolonialt hemland och, efter Algeriets självständighet, utan något hemland alls. Patriarken Gaston och hans fru …
Kvinnan på övervåningen
Pocket, 2025
89 kr
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"I litteraturen lyfts ofta människors längtan fram som något vackert, som en livets lågmälda melankoli. Men Kvinnan på övervåningen visar längtans mörka baksida, vreden över det man aldrig fick ... Som en rödglödgad Alice Munro sliter Claire Messud av masken och skriver om den tysta kvinnans …
This Is Not a Border
Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
Av J.M. Coetzee, William Sutcliffe m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
215 kr
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________________'This anthology will help turn your intellectual understanding of oppression into an emotional one' - New Statesman'Thanks for being who you are and for giving us such exposure to wonderful people. Palestine is proud of you' - Suad Amiry________________The Palestine Festival of …
This Strange Eventful History
A Novel
Häftad, 2025
135 kr
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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 historical sweep, is …
Emperor's Children
Häftad, 2015
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
127 kr
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With an introduction by Neel Mukherjee.In Manhattan, just after the century's turn, three thirty-year-old friends, Danielle, Marina and Julius, are seeking their fortunes. But the arrival of Marina's young cousin Bootie - fresh from the provinces and keen, too, to make his mark - forces them to …
Denna märkliga händelserika historia
E-bok, 2026
169 kr
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Nominerad till Bookerpriset 2024 Under sju decennier kämpar familjen Cassar för att hitta sin plats i tillvaron – separerade i andra världskrigets kaos, på flykt från ett komplicerat kolonialt hemland och, efter Algeriets självständighet, utan något hemland alls. Patriarken Gaston och hans fru …
Kejsarens barn
Häftad, 2019
3,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
260 kr
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”Messuds rappa och bildrika prosa lyckas både med konststycket att föra den myllrande berättelsen framåt och att komma sina många romangestalter inpå livet.” Sydsvenskan ”det är ren njutning att ta del av Messuds smarta iakttagelser, hennes avslöjande dialog” MMMM / M-magasin ”Det är en bred och …
Den brinnande flickan
Inbunden, 2018
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
245 kr
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Känsligt och komplext om kvinnlig vänskap. /…/Claire Messuds nya bok har likheter med Elena Ferrantes romaner om Lila och Elena. Hon skildrar hur en amerikansk flickpakt mellan Claire och Julia förändras med tiden. Svenska Dagbladet Julia och Cassie har varit bästa vänner sedan de gick i förskolan. …
Woman Upstairs
'Messud's prose grabs the reader by the collar' New York Times Book Review
Häftad, 2014
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
145 kr
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BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2024 BOOKER LONGLISTED THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY'Messud is a breathtaking writer . . . a beautiful - and beautifully sustained - howl of fresh, fierce, furious rage'INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYNora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague, friend, employee. …
Burning Girl
A Novel
Häftad, 2018
180 kr
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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 Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge and Cassie sets out on a journey …
This Strange Eventful History
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
Inbunden, 2024
257 kr
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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024'[A] wise and insightful novel about identity and family' The Times, Book of the Day'An epic family odyssey... Ambitious and compelling' Guardian, Book of the Day'A rich, sprawling saga... This Strange Eventful History may be Messud's finest book' Sunday …
Marlene Dumas: Myths & Mortals
Av Claire Messud, Marlene Dumas
Inbunden, 2019
558 kr
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The latest from the renowned painter—Marlene Dumas’s new works respond more than ever to the uncertainty and sensuality of the painting process itself. Allowing the structure of the canvases and the materiality of the paint greater freedom to inform the development of her compositions, the artist …
Emperor's Children
E-bok, 2006
205 kr
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The Emperor’s Children is a richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune—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. In this tour de force, the celebrated author Claire Messud brings to life …
The Emperor's Children
Häftad, 2007
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
297 kr
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Woman Upstairs
E-bok, 2013
104 kr
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor’s Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own. Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compromised …
This Strange Eventful History
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
E-bok, 2024
44 kr
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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 ''An epic family odyssey'' Guardian , Book of the Day Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the Cassar family is buffeted by conflict, struggling to find its feet - separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after …
This Strange Eventful History
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
Häftad, 2024
193 kr
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*A TIME MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 **AN OPRAH DAILY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024**AN OBSERVER 2024 PICK**A GUARDIAN 2024 PICK*'One of those rare novels which a reader doesn't merely read but lives through with the characters . . . Claire Messud is a magnificent storyteller' Yiyun …
This Strange Eventful History
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
Häftad, 2025
145 kr
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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024'An epic family odyssey' Guardian, Book of the DayOver seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the Cassar family is buffeted by conflict, struggling to find its feet - separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after …
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write
An Autobiography Through Essays
Häftad, 2020
181 kr
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Arranged in three parts, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens with Claire's most personal essays - reflections on a childhood divided between cultures, and between dueling models of womanhood. It is here, in these early years, that we see the seeds of Messud's inquiry …
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write
An Autobiography Through Essays
Häftad, 2021
139 kr
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'An uplifting work: complex, precise and bracing' Susie Boyt, Financial Times'A profound book about the intrication of literature and life, about the modest, miraculous ways art helps us to live' Garth GreenwellIn twenty-nine intimate, brilliant and funny essays, Claire Messud reflects on a …
Hunters
Häftad, 2026
206 kr
Kommande
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 new life in Canada. What of the past is she able to preserve, …
Burning Girl
A Novel
Inbunden, 2017
288 kr
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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 Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge and Cassie sets out on a journey …
This Strange Eventful History
A Novel
Inbunden, 2024
252 kr
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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 historical sweep, is …
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write
An Autobiography through Essays
Häftad, 2022
134 kr
Kommande
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, …
Burning Girl
'[Messud] is an absolute master storyteller' Los Angeles Times
E-bok, 2017
79 kr
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BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2024 BOOKER LONGLISTED THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY A bracing and hypnotic portrait of the complexities of female friendship ''Messud is a storyteller: the ability to compel and hold the reader''s interest may not be the crown and summit of novel writing, but it''s the …
Burning Girl
'[Messud] is an absolute master storyteller' Los Angeles Times
Häftad, 2018
144 kr
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BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2024 BOOKER LONGLISTED THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORYA bracing and hypnotic portrait of the complexities of female friendship'Messud is a storyteller: the ability to compel and hold the reader's interest may not be the crown and summit of novel writing, but it's the beginning …
Woman Upstairs
' Messud's prose grabs the reader by the collar' New York Times Book Review
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2024 BOOKER LONGLISTED THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY ''Messud is a breathtaking writer . . . a beautiful - and beautifully sustained - howl of fresh, fierce, furious rage'' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague, friend, …
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write
An Autobiography in Essays
Inbunden, 2020
276 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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, …
This Is Not a Border
Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
Av J.M. Coetzee, William Sutcliffe m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
216 kr
Lägg i varukorg
________________ ''This anthology will help turn your intellectual understanding of oppression into an emotional one'' - New Statesman ''Thanks for being who you are and for giving us such exposure to wonderful people. Palestine is proud of you'' - Suad Amiry ________________ The Palestine Festival …
Emperor's Children
Picador Classic
E-bok, 2015
176 kr
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With an introduction by Neel Mukherjee.In Manhattan, just after the century's turn, three thirty-year-old friends, Danielle, Marina and Julius, are seeking their fortunes. But the arrival of Marina's young cousin Bootie - fresh from the provinces and keen, too, to make his mark - forces them to …
