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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324110406
• ISBN13: 9781324110408
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 448 Pages