Claire Messud This Strange Eventful History (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: This Strange Eventful HistoryCondition: NewSubtitle: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024Author: Claire MessudFormat: HardbackISBN-10: 0349127050EAN: 9780349127057ISBN: 9780349127057Publisher: FleetGenre: FictionRelease Date: 05/23/2024Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024'[A] wise and insightful novel about identity and family' The Times, Book of the Day'An epic family odyssey... Ambitious and compelling' Guardian, Book of the Day'A rich, sprawling saga... This Strange Eventful History may be Messud's finest book' Sunday TelegraphJune 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 itinerary shaped as much by a search for an elusive wholeness, as by the imperatives of politics, faith, family, industry and desire.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 240mmItem Length: 156mmItem Width: 22mmItem Weight: 700gRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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