{"id":8345,"date":"2024-09-22T06:34:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T06:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/this-strange-eventful-history-a-novel\/"},"modified":"2024-09-22T06:34:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T06:34:32","slug":"this-strange-eventful-history-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/this-strange-eventful-history-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"This Strange Eventful History: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Winner of the 2024 Deborah Pease Prize<\/p>\n

Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize\u00a0\u2022 Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize<\/p>\n

One of Oprah Daily’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024 \u2022 One of New York magazine’s “23 Books We Can\u2019t Wait to Read in 2024” \u2022 One of The Guardian’s “Books to Look Out for in 2024” \u2022 One of The Globe & Mail’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024 \u2022 One of BookPage’s Most Anticipated fiction of 2024 \u2022 One of Literary Hub’s \u201cMost Anticipated Books of 2024\u201d \u2022 One of Book Riot’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2024”<\/p>\n

An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest contemporary novelists.<\/p>\n

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Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state\u2014separated 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 Fran\u00e7ois and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their family\u2019s strangeness; of Fran\u00e7ois\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family\u2019s history, Claire Messud animates her characters\u2019 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 \u201ca tour de force\u2026one of those rare novels that a reader doesn\u2019t merely read but lives through with the characters\u201d (Yiyun Li).<\/p>\n


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ASIN \u200f : \u200e B0CJGV78K2
Publisher \u200f : \u200e W. W. Norton & Company (May 14, 2024)
Publication date \u200f : \u200e May 14, 2024
Language \u200f : \u200e English
File size \u200f : \u200e 4506 KB
Text-to-Speech \u200f : \u200e Enabled
Screen Reader \u200f : \u200e Supported
Enhanced typesetting \u200f : \u200e Enabled
X-Ray \u200f : \u200e Enabled
Word Wise \u200f : \u200e Enabled
Sticky notes \u200f : \u200e On Kindle Scribe
Print length \u200f : \u200e 421 pages
Page numbers source ISBN \u200f : \u200e 0349127069 <\/p>\n

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