Best historical fiction books from Italy

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

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Accabadora by Michela Murgia EN

Rating: 4.5 3 Votes

Country: Europe /

Italy

Description:

The award winning Accabadora is an exceptional English–language debut, written with intriguing subtlety reflecting a sensual picture of local Italian life and death in villages during the 1950's. A time where family ties and obligations still decide much of life's ebb and flow. A must read for those who love a touch of the unusual. Formerly beautiful and at one time betrothed to a fallen soldier, Bonaria Urrai has a long held covenant with the dead. Midwife to the dying, easing their suffering and sometimes ending it, she is revered and feared in equal measure as the village's Accabadora. When... continue

Genre fiction Historical fiction

Tags: Set in ITALY Female author

Recommended: 06 Oct 2022

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The Boy Who Granted Dreams by Luca Di Fulvio EN

Rating: 4 1 Vote

Country: Europe /

Italy

Genre fiction Historical fiction

Tags: Set in ITALY Male author

Recommended: 03 Dec 2022

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The Chimera by Sebastiano Vassalli EN

Rating: 2 1 Vote

Country: Europe /

Italy

Description:

Offering a study of hypocrisy and evil, a comic novel of religious corruption and witchcraft in seventeenth-century Italy chronicles the fate of a young orphan named Antonia, who is burned at the stake in the town of Novara in 1610.

Genre fiction Folklore Historical fiction

Tags: Set in ITALY Male author

Recommended: 06 Oct 2022