This Strange Eventful History - Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
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| Verlag | Little |
| Auflage | 2024 |
| Seiten | 448 |
| Format | 15,2 x 23,2 x 3,6 cm |
| Gewicht | 580 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9780349127064 |
| Bestell-Nr | 34912706EA |
_A TIME MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 _
_AN OPRAH DAILY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024_
_AN OBSERVER 2024 PICK_
_A GUARDIAN 2024 PICK_
'One of those rare novels which a reader doesn't merely read but lives through with the characters . . . Claire Messud is a magnificent storyteller' Yiyun Li
June 1940. As Paris falls to the Germans, Gaston Cassar - honorable servant of France, devoted husband and father, currently posted as naval attache in Salonica - bids farewell to his beloved wife, aunt and children, placing his faith in God that they will be reunited after the war. But escaping the violence of that cataclysm is not the same as emerging unscathed. The family will never again be whole.
A work of breathtaking historical sweep and vivid psychological intimacy, This Strange Eventful History charts the Cassars' unfolding story as its members move between Salonica and Algeria, the US, Cuba, Canada, Argentina, Australia and France - their it inerary shaped as much by a search for an elusive wholeness, as by the imperatives of politics, faith, family, industry and desire.
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This epic family saga, which stretches from Algeria in 1927 to Connecticut in 2010 . . . [is a] wise and insightful novel about identity and family, and how love can stifle as well as comfort The Times, Book of the Day
