Historical genre books (726)
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A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth EN
IndiaDescription:
Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find -- through love or through exacting maternal appraisal -- a suitable boy for Lata to marry. Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy remains the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of l... continue
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini EN
Country: Asia / 
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Description:
Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, the #1 New York Times bestseller A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. “Just as good, if not better, than Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling first book, The Kite Runner.”—Newsweek Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Born a generation apart a... continue
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A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead EN
EnglandDescription:
Combines original sources, archival research, and personal interviews to relate the story of 230 women of the French Resistance who were captured and imprisoned by the Gestapo outside of Paris before being transported to Auschwitz.
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A Um Fio da Morte: Memórias de um sobrevivente do Genocídio Armênio by Hampartzoum Chitjian PT
ArmeniaDescription:
Os sobreviventes de um genocídio são pessoas comuns que viveram situações extraordinárias e por esse fato deixaram de ser comuns. A terrível experiência deve ser usada como um exemplo que impeça que atrocidades como essa voltem a ocorrer, especialmente quando o culpado segue impune e negando seu crime. É por isso que, nesses casos, nada deve impedir a recuperação da memória, já que, como nos disse Todorov, esse direito de recordar que tem os sobreviventes das violências do Estado se transformaram num dever: o de testemunhar. Este livro é um testemunho, a narração do inferno padecido por Hampar... continue
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A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict by Ilan Pappe EN
IsraelDescription:
A short primer unravelling the Israel–Palestine conflict from the nineteenth century to today The devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel–Palestine conflict didn’t start on 7 October. It didn’t start in 1967 either, when Israel occupied the West Bank, or in 1948 when the state of Israel was declared. It started in 1882, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in what was then Ottoman Palestine. Ilan Pappe untangles the history of two peoples, now sharing one land. Going back to the founding fathers of Zionism, Pappe expertly takes us thro... continue
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A Woman in Berlin : Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary by Marta Hillers EN
GermanyDescription:
For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. She tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject.
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Abigail Adams : Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S. Bober EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Abigail Adams is often referred to as the wife of one president and the mother of another. Rarely is she described as a woman in her own right. Although her primary focus and concerns were in her role as wife and mother, she lives in history because of her extraordinary letters to her family and to her friends. She was a witness to the gathering storm of the Revolutionary War. She saw the Battle of Bunker Hill from a hilltop near her home, and soldiers marching past her door frequently stopped for a drink of water. Because she was so close to the scene, she was able to give firsthand reports o... continue
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Abril despedaçado by Ismail Kadare PT
AlbaniaDescription:
O jovem montanhês Gjorg Berisha dá um tiro de fuzil e "toma o sangue" de Zef Kryeqyq. É A quadragésima quinta morte de uma vendeta iniciada setenta anos antes, quando um desconhecido foi vítima de um Kryeqyq depois de ser acolhido pelo clã dos Berisha. A Matança entre as duas famílias é uma imposição do Kanun, código moral que há séculos é transmitido de boca em boca nas montanhas albanesas (assim como na região de Kossovo).COm rigor de antropólogo, Ismail Kadaré vai ao fundo dessa fantástica codificação do assassinato como direito e dever e extrai de lá toda a fúria das tragédias. TÃo minucio... continue
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Abyssinian Chronicles : A Novel by Moses Isegawa EN
UgandaDescription:
Every once in a while there emerges a literary voice with the power and urgency to immerse readers deep within a previously "invisible" culture. From a young African writer who has already earned comparisons to Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes this masterful saga of life in 20th-century Uganda. The teller of this panoramic tale is Mugezi, a quick-witted, sharp-eyed man whose life encompasses the traditional and the modern, the peaceful and the insanely violent, the despotic and the democratic. Born in a rural community in the early 1960s, he is raised by his grandfather, a depos... continue
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Adjusting Sights by Haim Sabato EN
EgyptDescription:
This book brings us inside the deepest thoughts, fears and feelings of a yeshiva student turned soldier.