by Claire Messud · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781844087327
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«The Woman Upstairs» is the novel by Claire Messud, published in 2013 by Virago in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Nora Eldridge, a primary school teacher in Cambridge (Massachusetts), lives in the shadow of the artistic dream she abandoned. The arrival of Reza, a Lebanese boy, in her class brings her closer to his parents: Skandar, an academic at Harvard, and Sirena, an artist on the verge of success. That closeness awakens her vocation, but Sirena's ambition leads to a devastating betrayal.
It was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2013), the Arab American Book Award (2014), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2013) and the Andrew Carnegie Medal (2014).
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and reading groups, with a protagonist who reflects on art, identity and ambition.
Claire Messud is an American/Canadian/French novelist and literature and creative writing professor. She is best known as the author of the novel The Emperor's Children (2006).
