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Claire Messud - This Strange Eventful History, Inbunden

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This Strange Eventful History

A Novel

Av Claire Messud

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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.Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family’s history, Claire Messud animates her characters’ 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 “a tour de force…one of those rare novels that a reader doesn’t merely read but lives through with the characters” (Yiyun Li).
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-05-14
  • Mått: 159 x 236 x 34 mm
  • Vikt: 749 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 448
  • Förlag: WW Norton & Co
  • ISBN: 9780393635041
  • Utmärkelser: Long-listed for Booker Prize 2024
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Claire Messud is an award-winning novelist and writer. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, and the Strauss Living Award. She has been twice longlisted for the Booker Prize, for The Emperor’s Children and This Strange Eventful History, which won an American Book Award. She lives in Massachusetts.

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"[Messud's] novels frequently feature characters who are adrift and unmoored, with complex lineages that scan as vaguely foreign wherever they are. We watch others try to discipline those unruly identities, awkwardly forcing their historical baggage into cramped boxes. In This Strange Eventful History, Messud lets the messiness of reality overflow the neatness of fiction, as if in defiance of this tendency. The novel brims with details, many likely gleaned from a fifteen-hundred-page family history, titled "Everything That We Believed In," that her paternal grandfather left behind. Messud has used that document to craft something more interesting than a historical novel: a novel about history and the stories we tell ourselves about the role we play in it"

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