Historical fiction books from Estonia
Recommended historical fiction books (4)
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If you are into historical fiction here are some historical fiction books from Estonia for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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De gek van de tsaar by Jaan Kross NL
Description:
Een man die zijn belofte, de tsaar altijd de waarheid te vertellen gestand doet, wordt krankzinnig verklaard en tien jaar opgesloten.
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Pobeda 1946 : A Car Called Victory by Ilmar Taska EN
Description:
Ilmar Taska's debut novel captures the distrust and fear among Estonians living under Soviet occupation after World War II. The reader is transported to a world seen through the eyes of a young boy, where it is difficult to know who is right and who is wrong, be they occupiers or occupied.
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The Ropewalker : Between Three Plagues Volume I by Jaan Kross EN
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The first part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer Jaan Kross's trilogy dramatises the life of the renowned Livonian Chronicler Balthasar Russow, whose greatest work described the effects of the Livonian War on the peasantry of what is now Estonia. Like Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell, Russow is a diamond in the rough, a thoroughly modern man in an Early Modern world, rising from humble origins to greatness through wit and learning alone. As Livonia is used as a political football by the warring powers of Russia, Sweden, Pol... continue
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The Willow King by Meelis Friedenthal EN
Description:
A deeply engrossing, philosophical novel by a rising Estonian literary star. Wrapped into his long coat against the incessant rain and accompanied by a strange parrot, the young Dutch student Laurentius arrives in Estonia on an icy day at the end of the seventeenth century. On the run from a dark past and suspected of heresy, he has fled to Tartu, 'The City of the Muses', to study at the famous university. Laurentius has been searching obsessively for a cure for the mysterious melancholy which torments him, and is desperate to understand where the soul comes from, and how it relates to the bod... continue