This Strange Eventful History

by Claire Messud

Book Overview

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 Fran ois...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039363504X
• ISBN13: 9780393635041
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"