This Strange Eventful History

A family torn apart by war, geography, politics, religion, over the course of three generations
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A family torn apart by war, geography, politics, religion, over the course of three generations
*A TIME MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 *
*AN OPRAH DAILY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024*
*AN OBSERVER 2024 PICK*
*A GUARDIAN 2024 PICK*
'One of those rare novels which a reader doesn't merely read but lives through with the characters . . . Claire Messud is a magnificent storyteller' Yiyun Li
June 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