Esta Extraña Y Azarosa Historia - by Claire Messud (Paperback)

About the Book

This novel, undoubtedly Claire Messud's best and most ambitious to date, covers the lives of three generations of a Franco-Algerian family, the Cassars: that of the patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them while overwhelming their children, François and Denise, siblings united by the abnormality of their family; that of François's marriage to Barbara, a woman so culturally different that they can barely understand each other; and that of their daughters Loulou and Chloe, who try to reconstruct and make sense of a past hidden amid the social and political turmoil of the 20th century. Beginning in Larbaâ, Algeria, in 1940 and ending in Connecticut in 2010, via Thessaloniki, Buenos Aires, Sydney, and the French Riviera, the story is told alternately from the points of view of five of the characters.

About the Author

Claire Messud vive en Cambridge, Massachusetts, con su marido y sus dos hijos. Su primera novela, When the World Was Steady, y The Hunter (una colección de novelas cortas) fueron finalistas del PEN/Faulkner Award. Su segunda novela, The Last Life, fue considerada mejor libro del año según Publishers Weekly y «Editor's Choice» según The Village Voice. Todas las obras de la autora han sido destacadas por el New York Times («Notable Books of the Year»). Messud ha recibido becas (Guggenheim, Radcliffe Fellowships) y el Strauss Living Award de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Letras. Galaxia Gutenberg ha publicado en español sus novelas Los hijos del emperador, La niña en llamas, La vecina de arriba y Esta extraña y azarosa historia.