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This Strange Eventful History

By Claire Messud

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This Strange Eventful History

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'Magnificent' Financial Times, a Best Book of 2024 'An epic family odyssey' Guardian, Book of the Day Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state - separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This Strange Eventful History is the story of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of François and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their family's strangeness; of François's union with Barbara, a woman so culturally different they can barely comprehend one another; of Chloe, the result of that union, who believes that telling these buried stories will bring them all peace. Inspired in part by her own family's history, Claire Messud animates her characters' rich interior lives amid the social and political upheaval of the recent past. As profoundly intimate as it is expansive, This Strange Eventful History is an immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest contemporary novelists. 'Wise and insightful' The Times, Book of the Day 'Almost unbearably moving' Observer
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
428
Release Date:
2025-05-22
Publication Date:
2025-05-22
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0349127077
ISBN13:
9780349127071
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
350 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
201 cm
Thickness:
36 cm

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