The Guilty

by Claire Messud (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $6.22

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $4.37

  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