This Strange Eventful History -- Claire Messud, Hardcover

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This Strange Eventful History -- Claire Messud, HardcoverOver 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 Franois and

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