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This Strange Eventful History

✍ Scribed by Claire Messud

Book ID: 115151359
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Year: 2024
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 2 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780393635058

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✦ Synopsis

**One of Oprah Daily's Most Anticipated Books of 2024 • One of New York magazine's "23 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2024" • One of The Guardian's "Books to Look Out for in 2024" • One of The Globe & Mail's Most Anticipated Books of 2024 • One of BookPage's Most Anticipated fiction of 2024 • One of Literary Hub's "Most Anticipated Books of 2024" • One of Book Riot's "Most Anticipated Books of 2024"

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...

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