Historical fiction genre books (1709)
Finland922.
Purgatory: A Novel by Tomás Eloy Martínez EN
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Simón Cardoso had been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, found him at lunchtime in the dining room of Trudy Tuesday. So begins Purgatory, the final and perhaps most personal work of the great Latin American novelist Tomás Eloy Martínez. Emilia Dupuy's husband vanished in the 1970s, while the two were mapping an Argentine country road. All evidence seemed to confirm that he was among the thousands disappeared by the military regime. Yet Emilia never stopped believing that the disappeared man would reappear. And then he does, in New Jersey. And for Simón, no time at all has pass... continue
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Purity of Blood by Arturo Pérez-Reverte EN
SpainDescription:
A woman has been found in a sedan chair in front of a church, strangled. In her hand is a pouch containing 50 escudos and a handwritten, unsigned note. Chief Constable Martin Saldana confides in his old friend and comrade in arms, Diego Alatriste.
924.
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN
NigeriaDescription:
Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father sends her and her brother away to stay with their aunt, a University professor, whose house is noisy and full of laughter. There, Kambili and her brother discover a life and love beyond the confines of their father's authority. The visit will li... continue
925.
Quatrevingt-treize by Victor Hugo FR
FranceDescription:
Dans a Vendée de 1793, trois personnages s'affrontent : l'aristocrate Lantenac, fidèle à son passé, son petit-neveu Gauvain, tourné vers l'avenir généreux de la République, et le conventionnel Cimourdain, plus durement soucieux des exigences présentes de la Révolution et de la Terreur. Dans cette épopée où le romancier mêle la fiction de l'intrigue et la réalité de l'Histoire - Danton, Robespierre et Marat sont au centre du livre -, chacun des trois héros se trouve ainsi guidé par une certaine idée du devoir et de l'honneur. Et chacun sera conduit à une forme d'héroïsme qui n'écarte pas la mor... continue
North Macedonia927.
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz EN
PolandDescription:
"An epic saga of love, courage and devotion in Nero's time, Quo Vadis portrays the degenerate days leading to the fall of the Roman empire and the glory and the agony of early Christianity. Set at a turning point in history (A.D. 54-68), as Christianity replaces the era of corruption and gluttony that marked Nero's Rome, Quo Vadis brims with life."--Publisher description.
928.
Quo vadis? by Henryk Sienkiewicz DE
Description:
Das dekadente Rom Kaiser Neros im Widerstreit mit der unwiderstehlichen sittlichen Kraft des aufstrebenden Christentums und dazu eine von melodramatischen Elementen nicht freie, großartige Liebesgeschichte zwischen dem Römer Vinicius und der Christin Lygia - aus diesen Essenzen schuf der polnische Schriftsteller Henryk Sienkiewicz den Welterfolg 'Quo vadis?'. Das opulente Werk basiert auf intensiven Quellenstudien. Seinem Autor geht es aber nicht nur um die Beschreibung der römischen Welt, sondern, 'weil er dem Volk ins Herz schaut', auch um die Schilderung etwa des Martyriums der Christen ode... continue
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Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah EN
Country: Africa / 
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone
Description:
A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. "Every story begins and ends with a woman, a mother, a grandmother, a girl, a child. Every story is a birth..." So begins Radiance of Tomorrow, Ishmael Beah's first novel, one dogged by memories of horror but glimmering with an improbable hope. When Beah ' s memoir, A Long Way Gone, was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone ' s civil war and the fate of child soldiers that " everyone in the world should read " (Carolyn See, The ... continue
930.
Ragtime : A Novel by E.L. Doctorow EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The lives of three remarkable families become entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata at the turn of the century.