Overview
Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant stateāseparated 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, told with historical sweep, is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of FranƧois and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their familyās strangeness; of FranƧoisās 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 long-ago stories from her own familyās history, Claire Messud animates her charactersā 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 āa tour de forceā¦one of those rare novels that a reader doesnāt merely read but lives through with the charactersā (Yiyun Li).
This book title, This Strange Eventful History (A Novel), ISBN: 9780393635041, by Claire Messud, published by W. W. Norton & Company (May 14, 2024) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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