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The Professor’s History

Claire Messud

‘The call of the muezzin reached his ears only as a muffled wail, the keeper of ritual and the passage of time.’

Claire Messud

Claire Messud is a recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Author of six works of fiction including her most recent novel, The Burning Girl, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family.

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