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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Messud, Claire, 1966-     Subjects     Family secrets -- Fiction.     Secrecy -- Fiction.     Pieds-Noirs -- Algeria -- History -- Fiction.     Pieds-Noirs -- France -- History -- Fiction.     Pieds-Noirs -- Fiction.     Algeria -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Messud, Claire, 1966-       by title:      This strange eventfu...       by call number:      FICTION MES     Search the Web     Messud, Claire, 1966-     Family secrets -- Fiction.     Secrecy -- Fiction.     Pieds-Noirs -- Algeria -- History -- Fiction.     Pieds-Noirs -- France -- History -- Fiction.     Pieds-Noirs -- Fiction.     Algeria -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.       MARC Display

This strange eventful history : a novel / Claire Messud. by Messud, Claire, 1966- W. W. Norton & Company, 2024. Call #: FICTION MES Subjects Family secrets -- Fiction.   Secrecy -- Fiction.   Pieds-Noirs -- Algeria -- History -- Fiction.   Pieds-Noirs -- France -- History -- Fiction.   Pieds-Noirs -- Fiction.   Algeria -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780393635041 (hc.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  428 p. : maps ; 24 cm Summary:  "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."--Description from publisher. Genre:  Historical fiction. Family saga Holds:  22   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION MES Adult books Checked out Jul 15, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION MES Adult books Transit Request   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION MES Adult books Checked out Jul 02, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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