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Author:

Messud, Claire, 1966- author.

Title:

This strange eventful history : a novel / Claire Messud.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton & Company,

Copyright Date:

2024

Description:

428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Families--Fiction.
Pieds-Noirs--Algeria--History--Fiction.
Pieds-Noirs--France--History--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
Algeria--History--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.

Summary:

Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family's history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades, 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.

ISBN:

039363504X
9780393635041

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