Historical fiction books from Greece
Recommended historical fiction books (7)
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If you are into historical fiction here are some historical fiction books from Greece for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Alexander the Great : A Novel by Nikos Kazantzakis EN
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The career of Alexander the Great, from age 15, to his death is portrayed in a very realistic, exciting fashion instead of the usual romanticized version.
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The daughter by Pavlos Matesis EN
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From one of Greece's most popular novelists comes this story of a 65-year-old actress, from her childhood in a provincial Greek town to her life as a pensioner. As a child she lives through the horrors of German occupation and the Greek civil war, seeing her mother sleep with Italian soldiers to feed her children, and later accused of collaborating with the enemy. This novel vividly recaptures a little discussed period of Greece's recent past, but is above all a book about passion, comparable to the wildly successful novel and now film, Corelli's Mandolin.
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Read this stunning translation of Homer's great war epic, the legendary tale of honour, love, loss and revenge during the fall of the city of Troy. High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. Greek ships decay, men languish, exhausted, and behind the walls of Troy a desperate people await the next turn of fate. This is the Iliad- an ancient story of enduring power; magnetic characters defined by stirring and mom... continue
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The Scapegoat by Sophia Nikolaidou EN
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In 1948, the body of an American journalist is found floating in the bay off Thessaloniki. A Greek journalist is tried and convicted for the murder. but when he's released 12 years later, he claims his confession was the result of torture. Flash forward to modern day Greece, where a young, disaffected high school student is given an assignment for a school project: find the truth. Told by the dashing journalist's Greek widow; the mother and sisters of the convicted man; the brutal Thessaloniki Chief of Police; a U.S. Foreign Office investigator and the student.
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The Siege of Troy : A Novel by Theodor Kallifatides EN
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In this perceptive retelling of The Iliad, a young Greek teacher draws on the enduring power of myth to help her students cope with the terrors of Nazi occupation. Bombs fall over a Greek village during World War II, and a teacher takes her students to a cave for shelter. There she tells them about another war—when the Greeks besieged Troy. Day after day, she recounts how the Greeks suffer from thirst, heat, and homesickness, and how the opponents meet—army against army, man against man. Helmets are cleaved, heads fly, blood flows. And everything had begun when Prince Paris of Troy fell in lov... continue
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The Wildcat Behind Glass by Alki Zei EN
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Melia is spellbound by the stuffed wildcat in her family's living room--her cousin swears that it comes to life and roams the streets at night. When she finds a signed note from the animal with secret instructions, a thrilling and dangerous adventure begins. For Melia and her sister Myrto, summer means a break from Grandfather's history lessons and weeks of running free at the seaside with their ragtag group of friends. Best of all, cousin Nikos will visit and tell his fabulous stories about the taxidermied wildcat, which opens its blue glass eye when it wants to do good deeds and its black on... continue