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The Woman Upstairs

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#226661
Titel	The Woman Upstairs
Auteur	Messud, Claire
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London, Virago
Jaar van uitgave	2013
ISBN10	1844087336
ISBN13	9781844087334
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	"I'm halfway through my life, or maybe more, and I'm finally awake to the fact that it's in my hands alone. I've believed in other people, had faith, been patient, waiting for my moment -- enough, already. Who have I been kidding?" Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague, friend, employee. She teaches at an elementary school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the children and the parents adore her; but her real passion is her art, which she makes alone, unseen. To be an artist is, she is sure, her real destiny. Then one day Reza Shahid appears in her classroom: eight years old, a perfect, beautiful boy. Reza's parents are on a year-long visit from Paris: Skandar, his father, has a fellowship at Harvard; Sirena, his mother, is a glamorous instal... (Lees verder)lation artist apparently on the brink of huge success. For that magical year, Nora is admitted into their charmed circle, and everything is transformed. Or so she believes. As it turns out, her liberation from the benign shackles of her old life is not quite what it seems, and she is about to suffer a betrayal more monstrous than anything she could have imagined.
Pagina's	304
Conditie	Goed — Traces of use
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