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This Strange Eventful History: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
448 pages, Paperback
Published May 22, 2025
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Claire Messud
45 books939 followersClaire Messud is an American novelist and literature and creative writing professor. She is best known as the author of the novel The Emperor's Children (2006).
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December 6, 2025
A family saga and a political testimony to the 20th century.
What I loved about the book is how it narrates aging, which makes the book feel so alive.
Like we witness the protagonists growing up, changing from page to page, from lively youth with so many dreams to disillusioned adults, and then to bitter elderly. I felt like this was making the time the main protagonist of the book, similar to Proust's Lost Time.
What I loved about the book is how it narrates aging, which makes the book feel so alive.
Like we witness the protagonists growing up, changing from page to page, from lively youth with so many dreams to disillusioned adults, and then to bitter elderly. I felt like this was making the time the main protagonist of the book, similar to Proust's Lost Time.
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