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This strange eventful history: a novel

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Author:
Messud, Claire, 1966-
Publisher:
W.W. Norton & Company
Publication Date:
©2024
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Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family's history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades, starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe, who believes telling her family's buried stories will bring them all peace.

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Algeria -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Families
Families -- Fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction
History
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
Novels
Pieds-Noirs
Pieds-Noirs -- Algeria -- History -- Fiction
Secrecy
Secrecy -- Fiction

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