NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year 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 thistour de force, the celebrated author Claire Messud brings to life a city, a generation, and the way we live in this moment.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year The Emperor's Children is a richly drawn, brillia...
A New York TimesBook Review Notable Book - A Washington Post Top Ten Book of the Year - A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book - A Huffington Post Best Book - A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year - A Kirkus Best Fiction Book - A Goodreads Best Book Nora Eldridge is a reliable, but unremarkable, friend and neighbor, always on the fringe of other people's achievements. But the arrival of the Shahid family--dashing Skandar, a Lebanese scholar, glamorous Sirena, an Italian artist, and their son, Reza--draws her into a complex and exciting...
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On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony's sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination. And Briony...
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the foun...
![The Burning Girl: '[Messud] is an absolute master storyteller' Los Angeles Times Claire Messud 9780708898611 Little, Brown Book Group](/9780708898611_the_burning_girl_messud_is_an_absolute_master_storyteller_los_angeles_times.jpg "The Burning Girl: '[Messud] is an absolute master storyteller' Los Angeles Times")
