Based on the author’s own family history, this continent-hopping novel chronicles the relentless march of time and the people swept up by it
Claire Messud’s complex collection of essays look at authors and artists through her own family dynamics
Wanting to be liked at work is too often seen as a handicap
Two close childhood friends find their lives diverging as they reach adolescence
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The Indian writer’s first novel since ‘The God of Small Things’ two decades ago is grander still in ambition
A collection that vividly captures the perspectives of people at different times in their lives
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A real story of Swiss wartime heroism is at the heart of this three-part novel
Set in the present but drawing on myth, the novel reflects on the pervasiveness of evil and the possibility of hope
Part social tapestry, part feminist Bildungsroman, this tetralogy shines above all because of its vibrant, unflinching study of friendship
Stories of deathbed weddings and suburban gossip find beauty in apparently forsaken scenarios
A novel of obsession and betrayal
Six writers and their book-collecting habits
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