This Strange Eventful History by Messud, Claire

This Strange Eventful History

Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state--separated in the...
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Author: Claire Messud
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Language: English
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This Strange Eventful History by Messud, Claire

This Strange Eventful History

$46.22

This Strange Eventful History

$46.22
Author: Claire Messud
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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, 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 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 long-ago stories from 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 "a tour de force...one of those rare novels that a reader doesn't merely read but lives through with the characters" (Yiyun Li).



Author: Claire Messud
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/14/2024
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.25w x 1.35d
ISBN: 9780393635041


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2023 pg. 10
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2024
Publishers Weekly 03/25/2024
Booklist 04/01/2024 pg. 22
BookPage 05/01/2024
Library Journal 05/01/2024 pg. 90
Shelf Awareness 12/19/2024

About the Author
Messud, Claire: - Claire Messud is the author of six works of fiction. A recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she teaches at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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