Historical fiction books from Germany
Recommended historical fiction books (45)
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If you are into historical fiction here are some historical fiction books from Germany for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto by David Safier EN
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Inspired by true events, David Safier's 28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto is a harrowing historical YA that chronicles the brutality of the Holocaust. Warsaw, 1942. Sixteen-year old Mira smuggles food into the Ghetto to keep herself and her family alive. When she discovers that the entire Ghetto is to be "liquidated"—killed or "resettled" to concentration camps—she desperately tries to find a way to save her family. She meets a group of young people who are planning the unthinkable: an uprising against the occupying forces. Mira joins the resistance fighters who, with minimal... continue
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Adam y Evelyn by Ingo Schulze ES
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A las mujeres les gusta Adam porque él les corta vestidos que las hacen hermosas y deseables. A Adam le gustan las mujeres guapas. Cuando llevan sus creaciones, Adam las desea a todas y, a pesar de ello, ama a Evelyn. Un caluroso día de agosto de 1989, ésta lo pilla con una de sus clientas. En lugar de irse de viaje con Adam, tal como estaba previsto, Evelyn se marcha a Balatón, en Hungría, con una amiga y su primo del Oeste. Pero Adam decide seguirlos. Por Evelyn, Adam sería capaz de ir al fin del mundo; y tal vez tenga que hacerlo, pues Hungría quiere abrir las fronteras al Oeste. La huida p... continue
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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque EN
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One by one the boys begin to fall...In 1914, a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth, they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.
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Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada EN
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THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'One of the most extraordinary and compelling novels written about World War II. Ever' Alan Furst Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is a gripping wartime thriller following one ordinary man's determination to defy the tyranny of Nazi rule Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels re... continue
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In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all clues that might point to his origin - finds the past returning to haunt him and he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before.
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Resumen del editor: "Austerlitz, el último gran libro del más original narrador de nuestro tiempo, es la historia de un hombre al que, de niño, roban patria, idioma y nombre, y no puede sentirse ya en casa en este mundo. En la oscura nave de la estación de Amberes había un hombre joven, rubio, con pesadas botas de excursionista y una vieja mochila, ocupado en tomar notas y hacer dibujos en un cuaderno. El narrador lo observa fascinado, y comienza una relación que transcurre durante decenios y cautiva cada vez más a quien la narra. Jacques Austerlitz se llama el enigmático extranjero y, aunque ... continue
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Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann EN
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A classic of modern literature: Buddenbrooks is the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany facing the advent of modernity; in an uncertain new world, the family’s bonds and traditions begin to disintegrate. With an introduction by T. J. Reed, and translated by John E. Woods. As Mann charts the Buddenbrooks’ decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence, and madness, he ushers the reader into a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, go... continue
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Carlota en Weimar by Thomas Mann ES
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Thomas Mann (1875-1955) es un clásico indiscutible de la literatura alemana. Hizo del ser humano, condicionado por su contexto político y social, y del conflicto que puede surgir entre la vida y el arte o la inteligencia, el centro de buena parte de su extensa obra narrativa, en la que destacan, entre otros títulos, Los Buddenbrook (1901), Tonio Kröger (1903), La muerte en Venecia (1912), La montaña mágica (1924), considerada a menudo su obra más importantes, Mario y el mago (1930), Carlota en Weimar (1939), Doktor Faustus (1947), El Elegido (1951) y Confesiones del estafador Felix Krull (1954... continue
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Cititorul by Bernhard Schlink RO
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Cititorul este tulburatoarea poveste a unei iubiri neobisnuite, dintre un adolescent si o femeie cu douazeci de ani mai in virsta. Povestea lor se intrerupe, dar se reia neasteptat dupa citiva ani, cind tinarul, acum student, isi regaseste iubita de altadata judecata pentru faptele comise pe vremea cind era supraveghetoare intr-un lagar SS din apropierea Cracoviei.
"Cititorul este romanul unei deveniri, insa nu vad in el un Bildungsroman. Devenirea lui Michael Berg depaseste pragul individual si devine colectiva, a unei intregi generatii care trebuie sa invete cum sa isi vindece ranile... continue
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Dance by the Canal by Kerstin Hensel EN
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A tragicomic satire from the heart of East Germany. Gabriela grows up in the East German town of Leibnitz. Her father is a famous surgeon, her mother a respected society hostess. The girl, however, struggles to fulfil their expectations. She shows no talent as a violinist and, worse, she fails to choose the right friends at school. When her father falls out of favour with the communists, Gabriela drops out of school. Eventually she ends up living beneath a canal bridge. Then the Wall falls. Can Gabriela seize a second chance in the new, united, Germany? Why Peirene chose to publish this book: ... continue