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ISBN: 9780393635058

Content: " One of Oprah Daily's Most Anticipated Books of 2024 8226 One of New York magazine's 23 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2024 8226 One of The Guardian's Books to Look Out for in 2024 8226 One of The Globe &,Mail's Most Anticipated Books of 2024 8226 One of BookPage's Most Anticipated fiction of 2024 8226 One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2024 8226 One of Book Riot's Most Anticipated Books of 2024An 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 state8212 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 Fran231 ois and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their family's strangeness,of Fran231 ois'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). "

Content: Biographisches: " Claire Messud is the author of six works of fiction. A recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she teaches at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts." Rezension(2): "Library Journal: December 1, 2023 Inspired by her family history and 10 years in the making, Messud's new historical saga spans seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, about a pieds-noirs family who are left without a home after Algeria gains its independence from France. She explores the inner lives of these characters against the backdrop of social and political upheaval. Prepub Alert. Copyright 2023 Library JournalCopyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: March 1, 2024 A family rides the waves of current events and personal conflicts across three generations. Readers of Kant's Little Prussian Head & Other Reasons Why I Write (2020) will recognize the autobiographical elements in Messud's novel, but they are less important than the compelling way she has reinvented her family as fully fleshed fictional characters. Gaston and Lucienne Cassare, a French Algerian couple uprooted first by World War II and then by Algerian independence, embody for their son, Fran�ois, and daughter, Denise, a loving companionship so total that both children will spend their lives looking for its equal. Denise, whose personal attachments rarely work out, clings to her parents' devout Catholicism,Fran�ois might have made a home in America--its energy, its freedom, its carelessness thrill him as an Amherst undergraduate--but his Canadian wife, Barbara, objects. Their peripatetic marriage survives her extended absences to care for her dying father in Toronto and the damage inflicted on his business career when she insists they leave Australia, but he can never get over the fact that Barbara always holds part of herself apart from him. Messud portrays the Cassares at key moments in their lives, beginning in Algeria as France falls in June 1940 and ranging across continents and seven decades: Geneva, Toronto, Toulon, Buenos Aires, suburban Connecticut, and New York--wherever their varied fortunes take them, with the author's fictional stand-in, aspiring writer Chloe, and her sister, Loulou, entering as schoolgirls in 1970s Sydney. Messud paints compelling portraits of internal conflicts and tangled relationships, dropping along the way tantalizing references to crucial events that will be clarified later, in a rich narrative that defies summary. The novel reaches a poignant climax as the older generations age and die: Gaston and Fran�ois succumb to physical ailments,Lucienne and Barbara descend into dementia. The marriage of Fran�ois and Barbara, bitterly antagonistic but ultimately loyal, is perhaps the novel's most wrenching depiction, but Messud's gimlet eye and quietly masterful way with words make every character and incident gripping. Brilliant and heart-wrenching,Messud is one of contemporary literature's best. COPYRIGHT(2024) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(4): " Publisher's Weekly : Starred review from March 25, 2024 Messud ( The Burning Girl ) draws from her own family history for this exquisite multigenerational saga of the Cassars, a pied-noir clan exiled from Algeria by the country’s 1954–62 war of independence. Patriarch Gaston Cassar and his wife, Lucienne, whose seemingly perfect marriage contains within it a scandalous secret (the particulars of which dovetail artfully in Messud’s telling with the lingering stain of colonialism on France and the pieds-noirs), make peace with their displacement by clinging to their Catholic faith. Their daughter, Denise, follows her parents from Buenos Aires to Toulon, France, nursing a series of unrequited loves and a fierce sense of injustice. Her older brother, Fran231" Rezension(5): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: April 1, 2024 Gaston Cassar, an Algerian-born French naval attach� stationed in Greece, can barely stand being separated from his wife, Lucienne, and their young children, Fran�ois and Denise, but it's 1940 and WWII is erupting, so he sends his family home. Messud (The Burning Girl, 2017), a novelist of exquisite artistry and insight, draws on her own family history in this gorgeously realized, acutely sensitive, cosmopolitan, century-spanning, multigenerational saga. The displacements and sacrifices of war and marriage, the obdurate insistencies of the self, the conflict between pragmatism and desire are intently explored within the roil of geopolitics as Messud gives voice to her characters' thoughts, fears, yearnings, and anger. As age ravages Lucienne and Gaston, as Fran�ois and Barbara navigate a difficult marriage made worse by his sharp-clawed demons and raise two smart daughters who become mothers, as Denise copes with delusion and despair, Messud renders each inner and outer life in finely detailed, scintillating prose. Each landscape, season, and household in Algeria, France, Canada, Argentina, Australia, and the U.S. are opulently described and infused with emotion. Messud choreographs persistent sorrow, surprising choices, political paradoxes, helpless entanglements, and thwarted dreams, evincing keen knowledge of diverse realms and predicaments. Young Chloe thinks, everything is precarious,"

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