Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography Through Essays Historical romance Roland the Gunslinger

Roland the Gunslinger

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Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse

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Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography Through Essays Historical romance Roland the GunslingerIn twenty nine intimate, brilliant and funny essays, Claire Messud reflects on a childhood move from her Connecticut home to Australia; the complex relationship between her modern Canadian mother and a fiercely single French Catholic aunt; and a trip to Beirut, where her pied noir father had once lived, while he was dying. She meditates on contemporary classics from Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Rachel Cusk and Valeria Luiselli; examines three facets of