
From the "New York Times "best-selling author of "The Emperor s Children, " a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own. Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compromised her dream to be a successful artist, mother and lover. She has instead become the woman upstairs, a reliable friend and neighbor always on the fringe of others achievements. Then into her life arrives the glamorous and cosmopolitan Shahids her new student Reza Shahid, a child who enchants as if from a fairy tale, and his parents: Skandar, a dashing Lebanese professor who has come to Boston for a fellowship at Harvard, and Sirena, an effortlessly alluring Italian artist. When Reza is attacked by schoolyard bullies, Nora is drawn deep into the complex world of the Shahid family; she finds herself...
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Bokens olika lager öppnar också hos läsaren nya tankar. Förvisso en bok om konstnärlig hängivenhet ochrädsla att ge sig hän. Men också om åldrandet och livsveken. Messud närmar sig också gränslandet där det konstnärliga skapandets villkor kommer i centrum. Kan man vara en "god" människa och en konstnär i samma person?