Last Life（ISBN=） 英文原版

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.

Claire Messud was born in the United States in 1966. She was
educated at Yale and Cambridge. She is the author of When The World
Was Steady , which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, The
Hunters and The Last Life, which won the Encore Prize.