The Last Life

Claire Messud

Original title: The last life

first published 1999 Harvest Books, 2000 400 pages

A novel about French colonists in Algeria and their difficult adjustment to France after Algerian independence. It is narrated by a girl whose grandfather buys a hotel on the Riviera and forgetting he is no longer in the colonies goes to jail for shooting at rowdy teenagers by a pool.

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The Last Life edition · 2000 · Harvest Books · 400 pages · 9780156011655
The last life edition · 1999 · Picador · 376 pages
The last life edition · 1999 · Harcourt Brace · 352 pages · 9780151004713

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