This strange eventful history : a novel
Over 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.
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Families > Fiction. Pieds-Noirs > Algeria > History > Fiction. Pieds-Noirs > France > History > Fiction. Secrecy > Fiction. Algeria > History > 20th century > Fiction. |
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Historical fiction. |
- ISBN: 9780393635041 (hardcover)
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Physical Description
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428 pages : map ; 24 cm - Edition First edition.
- Publisher 2024