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Bookmark or Share- This Strange Eventful History: A Novel - amazon.comInspired in part Messud’s family history, This Strange Eventful History is an epic cross-generational story that follows a pieds-noirs family separated in the chaos of World War II and made adrift without a homeland after Algerian independence.
- THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY | Kirkus ReviewsThe first half of the book, set in gore-drenched hospital wards, mildewed dorm rooms, and boozy officers’ clubs, is an exciting read, tracking the transformation of virginal, uptight Frankie into a crack surgical nurse and woman of the world.
- “This Strange Eventful History,” Reviewed | The New YorkerIn “This Strange Eventful History,” by Claire Messud, a thirty-four-year-old French naval officer in Salonica (present-day Thessaloniki) learns that Nazi troops have breached the gates of Paris.
- This Strange Eventful History | Claire Messud | W. W. Norton ...One of Oprah Daily's Most Anticipated Books of 2024 • One of New York magazine's '23 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2024' • One of The Guardian 's 'Books to Look Out for in 2024' • One of The Globe & Mail 's Most Anticipated Books of 2024 • One of BookPage 's Most Anticipated fiction of 2024 • One of Literary Hub 's “Most ...
- This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud | GoodreadsOver 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.
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