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Claire Messud on the stories and secrets of a French Algerian family in The Last Life

Claire Messud on the stories and secrets of a French Algerian family in The Last Life

Update: 2024-06-23
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This week, American Canadian novelist Claire Messud. Throughout her career and in her new book, This Strange Eventful History, one of TIME’s most anticipated of 2024, Messud draws on her own family's history, especially that of her French Algerian father. In 2001 she spoke with Eleanor about her novel The Last Life, which traces three generations of a French Algerian family from the perspective of a teenage girl. To conclude the program, Messud reads a chapter from the novel.

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Claire Messud on the stories and secrets of a French Algerian family in The Last Life

Claire Messud on the stories and secrets of a French Algerian family in The Last Life