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03419aim a2200421Ka 4500 001 9050448C223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240604012727 006 m h 007 cr una--- 007 sz usn nn ed 008 220128s2024 nyu s 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1501958720 020 $a 9781501958724 (sound recording) 040 $a TEFOD $c TEFOD $d SILO 084 $a FIC019000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Messud, Claire. 245 10 $a This strange eventful history $h [electronic resource]. $c Claire Messud. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a Prince Frederick : $b Recorded Books, Inc., $c 2024. 300 $a 1 online resource (18 audio files) : $b digital 306 $a 16:33:05 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Narrator: Cassandra Campbell. 520 $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). "A choral mural of sweep and scope that knows just when to render the historical personal, Claire Messud's epic is above all a wise, wary, yet love-struck chronicle of how the selves we strive to make become 'colonized' by family."—Joshua Cohen, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Netanyahus 538 $a Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. 650 17 $a Fiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Literature. $2 OverDrive 655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local 700 1 $a Campbell, Cassandra. 856 40 $u http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=251&titleID=6381540 $z Click to download here. 856 4 $3 Excerpt $u https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a0849562-5830-408d-9cbe-732f5514d2a7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com $z Sample 856 4 $3 Image $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1694-1/%7BA0849562-5830-408D-9CBE-732F5514D2A7%7DIMG100.JPG $z Large cover image 856 4 $3 Thumbnail $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1694-1/%7BA0849562-5830-408D-9CBE-732F5514D2A7%7DIMG200.JPG $z Thumbnail cover image 856 40 $3 Click for more information $u https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1B0wAAAA2Z/products/a0849562-5830-408d-9cbe-732f5514d2a7 $x 1370 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20240604014243.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9050448C223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search