by Claire Messud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070396962
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«Les enfants de l'empereur» is the literary fiction novel by Claire Messud, published by Folio in paperback (720 pages, in French).
Three thirty-something friends in Manhattan in 2001: Marina, a budding journalist in the shadow of her father Murray; Danielle, in search of love and recognition; Julius, gay and a penniless freelancer. The arrival of Ludovic and young Bootie upsets the group's balance and triggers power struggles and seduction on the eve of September 11.
The novel was originally published in English as The Emperor's Children (2006); the present French edition is from 2009. The work was nominated for the Booker Prize and won the Massachusetts Book Award.
Recommended for book clubs and for readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in portraits of New York intellectual life.
