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The Woman Upstairs : a Novel by Messud, Claire is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Woman Upstairs : a Novel about?
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor's Children, a brilliant new novel: told with urgency, intimacy, and piercing emotion, the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and betrayed by passion and desire for a world beyond her own set in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Nora Eldridge is a reliable, but unremarkable, friend and neighbour, always on the fringe of other people’s achievements. But the arrival of the Shahid family — dashing Skandar, a Lebanese scholar, glamorous Sirena, an Italian artist, and their son, Reza — draws her into a complex and exciting new world. Nora’s happiness pushes her beyond her boundaries until Sirena’s careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal."It’s exhilarating to encounter such unrestrained vehemence in a work by this controlled, intellectual author. Messud’s previous novels, albeit extraordinarily intelligent and well-crafted, are characterized by rationed or distant emotion. The Woman Upstairs is utterly different — its language urgent, its conflicts outsize and unmooring, its mood incendiary. This psychologically charged story feels like a liberation ... In this ingenious, disquieting novel, she has assembled an i
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Messud, Claire
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf Incorporated
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781594137280
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Art
- Rating
- 3.31 / 5 (25,506 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14