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245 10 a| This strange eventful history :b| a novel /c| Claire Messud.;

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520 a| Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family's history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades (from 1940-2010), starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe, who believes telling her family's buried stories will bring them all peace.;

520 8 a| An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest contemporary novelists. 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). -- Provided by publisher.;

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This strange eventful history : a novel / Claire Messud.

Author/creator	Messud, Claire, 1966- author.
Format	Book
Edition	First edition.
Publication	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024]
Copyright Date	©2024
Description	428 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Subjects	Families--Fiction. Pieds-Noirs--Algeria. --History. --Fiction. Pieds-Noirs--France. --History. --Fiction. Secrecy--Fiction. Algeria--History. --20th century. --Fiction.

Abstract	Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family's history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades (from 1940-2010), starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe, who believes telling her family's buried stories will bring them all peace.
Summary	An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest contemporary novelists. 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). -- Provided by publisher.
Genre/form	Historical fiction.
Genre/form	Historical fiction.
Genre/form	Fiction.
Genre/form	Novels.
ISBN	9780393635041 (hardcover)
ISBN	039363504X (hardcover)
Stock number	W W Norton & Co Inc, Keystone Industrial Park Attn Mike Charnogursky 800 Keystone Industrial Park, Scranton, PA, USA, 18512 SAN 202-5795

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