Historical fiction genre books (1697)


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Bom dia, camaradas by Ondjaki PT

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Country: Africa / Angola flag Angola
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Do premiado autor angolano, Bom dia, camaradas resgata de forma lírica a infância de um garoto de classe média num país dividido entre a tradição e o novo. Uma Luanda dos anos 1980 com professores cubanos, escolas entoando hinos matinais e jovens de classe média é o cenário de Bom dia, camaradas. Do universo do romance também fazem parte as lembranças dos cartões de abastecimento, as desigualdades sociais e os conflitos entre modernidade e tradição. Através do olhar lírico de um garoto, o leitor é levado a uma Angola que acabou de se tornar independente e é obrigada a repensar as regras sociai... continue

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Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Philippines flag Philippines
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Samuel lives in a tribe deep in the Philippine jungle at the end of the nineteenth century, and has never encountered anyone from outside his own tribe before. Hes about to become a man, and while hes desperate to grow up, hes worried that this will take him away from his best friend, Little Luki.

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Bones by Chenjerai Hove EN

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Country: Africa / Zimbabwe flag Zimbabwe
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Bones is a powerful, heart-rending novel that provides a sensitive evocation of Marita, a farm worker, whose only son joined the freedom fighters in Zimbabwes war of liberation. He does not return after the war and Marita is determined to find him or find out what happened to him. This is perhaps a single clear theme in a landscape where women, particularly the poor and the marginalised, suffer many layers of oppression. Maritas courage and endurance are reconstructed through the memories of those who knew her in a language steep in poetry and Shona idiom. Bones, which won the Noma Award in 19... continue

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Bosnian Chronicle : A Novel by Ivo Andric EN

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Set in the town of Travnik, Bosnian Chronicle presents the struggle for supremacy in a region that stubbornly refuses to submit to any outsider. The era is Napoleonic and the novel, both in its historical scope and psychological subtlety, Tolstoyan. In its portrayal of conflict and fierce ethnic loyalties, the story is also eerily relevant. Ottoman viziers, French consuls, and Austrian plenipotentiaries are consumed by an endless game of diplomacy and double-dealing: expansive and courtly face-to-face, brooding and scheming behind closed doors. As they have for centuries, the Bosnians themselv... continue

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Boundary Waters by Tristan Hughes EN

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Canada 1804, the wild frontier. Arthur journeys into the wild wilderness in a birchbark canoe, with a ‘parcel of scoundrels’ led by the erratic drunkard McLeod. There is a treasure—a lost cache of valuable furs—its riches to be won. The tale is told to Esther, a Saulteaux woman he meets along the journey. Voyageurs were either ‘big wigs’, mostly Scotsmen, or ‘engagés’, mostly Frenchmen, then further divided according to skill and experience. Arthur being a novice, before his first experience of rapids, he undergoes a ‘baptism&rsquo... continue


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Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
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An unforgettable novel that shimmers with the wonder and terror of its author's native Haiti. Set in the island's impoverished villages and in New York's Haitian community, this is the story of Sophie Caco, who was conceived in an act of violence, abandoned by her mother and then summoned to America. In New York, Sophie discovers that Haiti imposes harsh rules on its own. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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Brewster by Mark Slouka EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
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Still reeling from the death of his older brother, a sixteen-year-old track star befriends a street-fighting rebel and together they search for redemption amidst the social changes of 1968.

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Bridgerton : The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons Book 2) by Julia Quinn EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
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# 1 New York Times Bestseller The inspiration for season two of BRIDGERTON, a series created by Shondaland for Netflix, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn: the story of Anthony Bridgerton in the second of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family. ANTHONY’S STORY This time the gossip columnists have it wrong. London’s most elusive bachelor Anthony Bridgerton hasn’t just decided to marry—he’s even chosen a wife! The only obstacle is his intended’s older sister, Kate Sheffield—the most meddlesome woman ever to grace a London ballroom. Th... continue

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Bridgerton [TV Tie-In] : The Duke and I by Julia Quinn EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
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From New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the first novel in the beloved Regency-set world of her charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince--while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable...but not too amiable. Daphne Bridgerton has always failed ... continue