Historical fiction genre books (1700)
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Haïkus de Sibérie by Jurga Vilé FR
LithuaniaDescription:
La vie est belle. Lituanie, 1941. Algis est encore un enfant quand il est déporté dans un camp sibérien. Il raconte son quotidien où l'on croise le fantôme de son jars domestique, une chorale, des Russes impitoyables, et même des soldats japonais ! Avec son regard pur comme l'azur et sa fantaisie d'enfant, Algis nous fait rire, nous surprend et nous émeut.
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Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN
NigeriaDescription:
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—a haunting story of love and war. • Recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award. With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works f... continue
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Description:
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait delivers a luminous portrait of a marriage, a family ravaged by grief, and a boy whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time. • “Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare’s life ... here is a novel ... so gorgeously written that it transports you." —The Boston Globe England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, bu... continue
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Hanna's Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson EN
SwedenDescription:
“An uplifting family saga . . . [Marianne] Fredriksson provides a satisfyingly complex . . . chronicle of women and the burdens imposed by their family history, their gender and themselves. . . . Its message of reconciliation is transcendent.”—People Sweeping through one hundred years of Scandinavian history, this luminous story follows three generations of Swedish women—a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter—whose lives are linked through a century of great love and great loss. Resonating with truth and revelation, this moving novel deftly explores the often difficult but enduring ties betwe... continue
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Hanul lui Manuc by Simona Antonescu RO
RomaniaDescription:
Romanul Simonei Antonescu ne poartă cu două veacuri în urmă, în Principatele Române. Remitizarea istoriei nu doar însufleţeşte destine individuale, ci dă viaţă şi tensiune unor evenimente cruciale de mult arhivate. Această călătorie de şase ani în perioada războiului ruso-turc, terminat cu pierderea Basarabiei, este o autentică evadare în trecut. Pe moşiile Ţării Româneşti, grînarul marilor imperii, sau în bătălii pe mare şi pe uscat, pe uliţele tîrgului Bucureştilor, traversate de picioare desculţe şi taine de palat, sau la Constanti... continue
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Happiness, as Such by Natalia Ginzburg EN
ItalyDescription:
The hauntingly beautiful epistolary novel from "a glowing light of modern Italian literature" (New York Times Book Review) Longlisted for the PEN Translation Award
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Hard by a Great Forest : A Novel by Leo Vardiashvili EN
GeorgiaDescription:
ONE OF NPR’s “BOOKS WE LOVE" 2024 NAMED ONE OF THE OBSERVER’S 10 BEST NEW NOVELISTS FOR 2024 "The stakes could barely be higher in Leo Vardiashvili’s propulsive page-turner…It’s a spellbinding achievement."—The Financial Times “Has a commercial-fiction spring in its step.… Vardiashvili also has captured the winking, world-weary humor and magic-realist touches that mark a lot of literature from Europe’s war-torn corners.” —Los Angeles Times "This novel annihilated me.... Left my heart bruised and battered and aching for more." —Khaled Hosseini, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kite R... continue
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Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke EN
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“Yan is one of those rare geniuses who finds in the peculiar absurdities of his own culture the absurdities that infect all cultures.” —The Washington Post From the Kafka Prize winner and two-time Booker Prize finalist, this is a gripping and bitingly satirical story of ambition and betrayal, following two young communist revolutionaries whose forbidden love sets them apart from their traditionally minded village as the Cultural Revolution sweeps China. Gao Aijun is a son of the soil of Henan’s Balou Mountains, and after his Army service, he is on his way back to his ancestral village, feeling... continue
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England