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The Last Life by Claire Messud (Paperback / softback, 2000)

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Product Description : Narrated by a fifteenyearold 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 grandfathers rifle As their world suddenly begins to crumble longhidden 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 Bellevuethe family businessto 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