This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud

This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud*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 LiJune 1940. As Paris falls to the Germans, Gaston Cassar honorable servant of France, devoted husband and father, currently posted as naval attache in Salonica

I smile politely

strongest shape of your life

all over the world

flying higher and higher as the wind warms

Camping and rest areas

Working here is my last chance to start fresh

weight and our bodies

The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility

and fear of the unknown push one woman ever closer to breaking point

Wendy Sharpe is Annabel's oldest friend

It is a celebration of the food of Mexico City and the dishes that Rosa grew up eating and now recreates in her two Sydney restaurants: Tamaleria and Icatate

or enemies