Historical fiction genre books (1697)
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Your House is on Fire, Your Children All Gone : A Novel by Stefan Kiesbye EN
GermanyDescription:
Shirley Jackson meets The Twilight Zone in this riveting novel of supernatural horror—for readers who loved Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children A village on the Devil‘s Moor: a place untouched by time and shrouded in superstition. There is the grand manor house whose occupants despise the villagers, the small pub whose regulars talk of revenants, the old mill no one dares to mention. This is where four young friends come of age—in an atmosphere thick with fear and suspicion. Their innocent games soon bring them face-to-face with the village‘s darkest secrets in this eeril... continue
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Your Presence is Mandatory by Sasga Vasilyuk EN
RussiaDescription:
In 2007 Ukraine, after Yefim Shulman, beloved husband, grandfather and World War II veteran, passes away, his widow Nina finds a letter to the KGB in his briefcase that reveals his lifelong secret, which forces them to reassess the man they thought they knew and the country he defended.
1683.
Your Republic Is Calling You by Kim Young-ha EN
Country: Asia / 
South Korea
South Korea
Description:
This psychological thriller of a North Korean spy living in Seoul is “perhaps the most intriguing and accomplished Korean fiction yet to appear in English” (Kirkus). Foreign film importer Kim Ki-Yong is a family man with a wife and daughter. Living a prosperous life in Seoul, South Korea, he’s an aficionado of Heineken, soccer, and sushi. But he is also a North Korean spy who has been living among his enemies for twenty-one years. Then, after more than a decade of silence from the home office, he receives a mysterious email stating that he has one day to return to headquarters. But is the mess... continue
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Yule Island by Johana Gustawsson EN
FranceDescription:
An art expert joins a detective to investigate a horrific murder on a Swedish island, leading them to a mystery rooted in Viking rites and Scandinavia's deepest, darkest winter. The Queen of French Noir returns with a chilling, utterly captivating historical thriller, based on a true story. Art expert Emma Lindhal is anxious when she's asked to appraise the antiques and artefacts in the infamous manor house of one of Sweden's wealthiest families, on the island of Storholmen, where a young woman was murdered nine years earlier, her killer never found. Emma must work alone, and the Gussman famil... continue
Ukraine1686.
Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto ES
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Publicada por primera vez en 1956, Zama está considerada de manera unánime como una de las grandes novelas del siglo veinte en lengua española.
Con una escritura bella y precisa, Antonio Di Benedetto narra la existencia solitaria y suspendida de Don Diego de Zama, un funcionario de la corona española en Asunción del Paraguay que, víctima de una interminable espera, aguarda ser trasladado a Buenos Aires a fines del siglo XVIII.
La de Zama no es cualquier espera, se trata de una condición existencial, angustiosa y reflexiva, en un territorio car... continue
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Zăpada by Orhan Pamuk RO
TurkeyDescription:
Aparut in 2002, Zapada, romanul cu aer kafkian al lui Orhan Pamuk pare familiar cititorului pasionat. Zapada urmareste un moment din viata unui poet ce revine in inima framintata de umori si conflicte religioase a unui orasel turcesc de provincie. In Kars, totul a luat-o razna, iar locuitorii orasului sint ingroziti de valul de sinucideri ale unor tinere carora li s-a interzis sa poarte val in scoli. Ka revede fosti prieteni si isi reintilneste iubita, Ipek, a carei sora mai tinara este conducatoarea protestatarelor. Odata ce numarul personajelor creste, framintarile in micul oras capata propo... continue
Slovakia1689.
Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore EN
EnglandDescription:
They stand by side on the rock, facing out to sea. They are hidden from land here. Even spies would see nothing of them. It is spring 1917 in the Cornish coastal village of Zennor, and the young artist Clare Coyne is waking up to the world. Ignoring the whispers from her neighbours, she has struck a rare friendship with D.H. Lawrence and his German wife, who are hoping to escape the war-fever of London. In between painting and visits to her new friends she whiles away the warm days with her cousin John, who is on leave from the trenches, harbouring secrets she couldn't begin to understand. But... continue
1690.
Zuleiha deschide ochii by Guzel Yakhina RO
Description:
Marea revelație a literaturii ruse din 2015, romanul Zuleiha deschide ochii, salutat cu entuziasm la apariție de Ludmila Ulițkaia și Evgheni Vodolazkin, a fost recompensat cu cele mai importante premii: Bolșaia Kniga (dublu câștigãtor, Premiul întâi și Premiul cititorilor – Locul întâi), Iasnaia Poliana (Lev Tolstoi) și Kniga Goda. Este în curs de traducere în peste treizeci de limbi.
Zuleiha, o tânără gravidă dintr-un sat de tătari, e deportată în Siberia după uciderea soțului ei de către un ofițer din Armata Roșie. Face o ... continue