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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.
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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.
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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
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22
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