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Recommended historical fiction books (2)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into historical fiction here are some historical fiction books from Austria for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler EN

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Shortlisted for the Booker International Prize. Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler is a tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude. An exquisite novel about a simple life, it has already demonstrated its power to move thousands of readers with a message of solace and truth. It looks at the moments, big and small, that make us what we are. Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with Marie, he... continue

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Lena : unser Dorf und der Krieg by Käthe Recheis DE

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Das Buch beschreibt wie das österreichische Mädchen Lena die Nazizeit erlebt. Es werden viele Themen angesprochen, z.B. der Anschluß Österreichs, der Holocaust, Euthanasie, Bombenangriffe, Hitlerjugend u.v.m.