Produkt
KlappentextOver 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. 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).
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-393-63504-1
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum14.05.2024
Seiten448 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht666 g
Artikel-Nr.61079586
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GenreRomane Hardcover