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The last life

Narrated by a fifteen-year-old girl with a ruthless regard for truth, The Last Life is a beautifully told novel of lies and ghosts, love and honor. Set in colonial Algeria, and in the south of France and New England, it is the tale of the LaBasse family, whose quiet integrity is shattered by the shots from a grandfather's rifle. As their world suddenly begins to crumble, long-hidden shame emerges: a son abandoned by the family before he was even born, a mother whose identity is not what she has claimed, a father whose act of defiance brings Hotel Bellevue-the family business-to its knees. Messud skillfully and inexorably describes how the stories we tell ourselves, and the lies to which we cling, can turn on us in a moment. It is a work of stunning power from a writer to watch.

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  • "Een vrouw denkt terug aan haar jeugd in Zuid-Frankrijk, waar ze zich een buitenstaander voelde met haar half Amerikaanse, half Frans-Algerijnse afkomst en haar gehandicapte broertje."
  • "Narrated by a fifteen-year-old girl with a ruthless regard for truth, The Last Life is a beautifully told novel of lies and ghosts, love and honor. Set in colonial Algeria, and in the south of France and New England, it is the tale of the LaBasse family, whose quiet integrity is shattered by the shots from a grandfather's rifle. As their world suddenly begins to crumble, long-hidden shame emerges: a son abandoned by the family before he was even born, a mother whose identity is not what she has claimed, a father whose act of defiance brings Hotel Bellevue-the family business-to its knees. Messud skillfully and inexorably describes how the stories we tell ourselves, and the lies to which we cling, can turn on us in a moment. It is a work of stunning power from a writer to watch."@en
  • "A novel about French colonists in Algeria and their difficult adjustment to France after Algerian independence. It is narrated by a girl whose grandfather buys a hotel on the Riviera and forgetting he is no longer in the colonies goes to jail for shooting at rowdy teenagers by a pool."
  • "A novel about French colonists in Algeria and their difficult adjustment to France after Algerian independence. It is narrated by a girl whose grandfather buys a hotel on the Riviera and forgetting he is no longer in the colonies goes to jail for shooting at rowdy teenagers by a pool."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "Und dazwischen das Meer"
  • "החיים האחרונים"
  • "La última vida"@es
  • "Het vorige leven"
  • "The last life : [a novel]"
  • "L'innocenza perduta di Sagesse"@it
  • "L'innocenza perduta di Sagesse"
  • "The last life : [novel]"
  • "ha-Ḥayim ha-aḥaronim"
  • "La vie après"
  • "The last life"
  • "The last life"@en

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