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and stylistic innovation
author of I Am the Messenger
and how epic their heroic journey
A meditation on the competence of ordinary people
and as they face an uncertain future
This Strange Eventful History and stylistic innovationOver 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 Franois and