by Claire Messud · Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788410317482
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«Esta extraña y azarosa historia» is the novel by Claire Messud, published by Galaxia Gutenberg in paperback (512 pages, in Spanish).
A novel about three generations of the Franco-Algerian Cassar family, from 1940 in Larbaâ (Algeria) to 2010 in Connecticut, via Thessaloniki, Buenos Aires, Sydney and the French Riviera. Five voices narrate the story to explore love, family ties and the search for meaning in a turbulent twentieth century.
Original title: «This Strange Eventful History». Translated from English by Patricia Antón de Vez. First Spanish-language edition published in 2025.
Aimed at readers of generational novels and family sagas with a historical backdrop.
Claire Messud is an American/Canadian/French novelist and literature and creative writing professor. She is best known as the author of the novel The Emperor's Children (2006).
