This Strange Eventful History

Title: This Strange Eventful History Author: Claire Messud ISBN: 9781324110408 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Published: 2025 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Fiction 1669795 Publisher Description: 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 th