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This Strange Eventful History
This Strange Eventful History
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In This Strange Eventful History, Gaston Cassar, a Frenchman serving as a naval attache in Salonica in June 1940, says goodbye to his wife, aunt, and children while placing his faith in God that they will be reunited after the war. The family will never be the same again.
Format: Hardback
Length: 448 pages
Publication date: 23 May 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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An epic family odyssey, ambitious and compelling, Guardian Book of the Day, June 1940. As Paris falls to the Germans, Gaston Cassar, an honorable servant of France, devoted husband, and father, currently posted as a 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.
Weight: 712g
Dimension: 165 x 244 x 41 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780349127057
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