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Claire Messud, Neel Mukherjee (Beteiligte)

The Emperorīs Children


Nominated for the Man Booker Prize 2006
Mitarbeit: Mukherjee, Neel
2015. 592 p. 197 mm
Verlag/Jahr: MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL; PICADOR 2015
ISBN: 1-447-28941-2 (1447289412)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-447-28941-8 (9781447289418)

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In the glittering tradition of Edith Wharton, The Emperorīs Children examines life in upper-crust Manhattan, and tells a compelling story of ambition, vanity and tragedy
With an introduction by Neel Mukherjee.

In Manhattan, just after the centuryīs turn, three thirty-year-old friends, Danielle, Marina and Julius, are seeking their fortunes. But the arrival of Marinaīs young cousin Bootie - fresh from the provinces and keen, too, to make his mark - forces them to confront their own desires and expectations.

The Emperorīs Children by Claire Messud is an American classic: a sweeping portrait of one of the most fascinating cities in the world, and a haunting illustration of how the events of a single day can change everything, for ever.
In its scope, style and substance, The Emperorīs Children is an attempt to return the novel to its golden age; it is engaged in a conversation with George Eliot, Henry James, Dostoevsky. Its psychological realism is perfect, its characters . . . thrillingly real, alive and utterly convincing in their subtleties of thought and the ticking of their minds.
Messudīs prose is a timely and intensely pleasurable reminder of the possibilities of the English language. To use the word clarity about her style - dense, chaste, luminously intelligent - is to return the word to its origins; this is style as illumination, shining a searching yet sympathetic light on the minds and inner worlds of her characters, and as a radiant mode of moral inquiry.
The Times
Messud, Claire
Claire Messud was educated at Yale and Cambridge. Her first novel, When the World Was Steady, and her book of novellas, The Hunters , were finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award; her second novel, The Last Life , was a Publishersī Weekly Best Book of the Year; all three books were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship and the Straus Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with her husband and children.