This Strange Eventful History
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This Strange Eventful History
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 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’ union with Barbara, a woman so culturally different they can barely comprehend one another; and of Chloe, the result of that union, who believes that telling these buried stories will bring them all peace.
This Strange Eventful History
- Publication Date: May 14, 2024
- Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Hardcover: 448 pages
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN-10: 039363504X
- ISBN-13: 9780393635041