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"The Last Life" tells the story of the teenage Sagesse LaBasse and her family, French Algerian emigrants haunted by their history, brought to the brink of destruction by a single reckless act. Observed with a fifteen-year-old's ruthless regard for truth, it is a novel about secrets and ghosts, love and honour, the stories we tell ourselves and the lies to which we cling. It is a work of stunning emotional power, written in prose of matchless iridescence and grace. "'Powerful, Gripping, dark at its heart, this is an almost faultless novel" - "Evening Standard". "A joy to read. Messud's prose is lush, incantatory ...her observations are funnily astute, brimming with wit and imagination ...as elegant and precise as geometry" - "Independent". "Mesmerizing ...Ms Messud has written a large and resonant novel that is as artful as it is affecting" - "New York Times".
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The Last Life, Claire Messud
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 2000
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- Titul
- The Last Life
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Claire Messud
- Vydavatel
- Picador
- Rok vydání
- 2000
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 384
- ISBN10
- 033039634X
- ISBN13
- 9780330396349
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletrie, Romantika, Láska, Rodina, Současná literatura, Současná romantika, Francie, Dospívání, Young Adult romantika, Mládež, Vina, Hledání sama sebe, Hotely, Internát, Alžírsko, První polibek
- Hodnocení
- 3,55 z 5
- Anotace
- "The Last Life" tells the story of the teenage Sagesse LaBasse and her family, French Algerian emigrants haunted by their history, brought to the brink of destruction by a single reckless act. Observed with a fifteen-year-old's ruthless regard for truth, it is a novel about secrets and ghosts, love and honour, the stories we tell ourselves and the lies to which we cling. It is a work of stunning emotional power, written in prose of matchless iridescence and grace. "'Powerful, Gripping, dark at its heart, this is an almost faultless novel" - "Evening Standard". "A joy to read. Messud's prose is lush, incantatory ...her observations are funnily astute, brimming with wit and imagination ...as elegant and precise as geometry" - "Independent". "Mesmerizing ...Ms Messud has written a large and resonant novel that is as artful as it is affecting" - "New York Times".