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

and everything has a price

Rafal Kosik is one of the most influential Polish science fiction writers of the 21st century

But war changes things

By illuminating the motivations

so that one day

his teachers and classmates come searching for him

and popularized the term “creative destruction” in economics

Graham Greene

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thinking up new ways to help Americans shed the excess weight around their middles and in their wallets

Join the children and their friends Moonface

I loved it' Eve Chase author of Black Rabbit Hall and The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde