Historical fiction books from Serbia
Recommended historical fiction books (6)
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If you are into historical fiction here are some historical fiction books from Serbia for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Landscape Painted with Tea by Milorad Pavic EN
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A failed architect's search for his father, an officer who vanished in Greece during World War II, becomes a labyrinthine puzzle, inextricably bound to the history of the ancient monastery on Mount Athos.
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Migrations by Miloš Crnjanski EN
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Eighteenth century Serbs flee the tyranny of the Ottoman Empire as two brothers, a soldier and a merchant, and a woman, who is wife to one and mistress to the other, face the displacement and sorrows of war.
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Papel con marca de agua by Goran Petrović ES
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A finales del siglo XIV, la excéntrica e impredecible Giovanna II, reina de Nápoles, quiere escribir a su amante una carta de amor que le resulte irresistible. Para ello recluta a los diez poetas más célebres del reino, a cien soldados y a una comitiva de sirvientes, y emprende una expedición a Amalfi, donde la Congrega dei Cartari produce el papel más selecto de Europa. No obstante, dicha congregación también es famosa por el estricto proceso de selección de sus clientes, al considerar que su papel está destinado a acoger l... continue
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The Cyclist Conspiracy by Svetislav Basara EN
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The Cyclist Conspiracy tells the tale of a secret Brotherhood who meet in dreams, gain esoteric knowledge from contemplation of the bicycle and seek to move in and out of history, manipulating events. The brothers are part of a conspiracy so vast and so secret that, in many cases, the conspirators themselves are unaware of their participation in it. The novel details the story of these interventions and the important moments where the Brotherhood had made its influence felt.
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The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht EN
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Spectacular . . . [Téa Obreht] spins a tale of such marvel and magic in a literary voice so enchanting that the mesmerized reader wants her never to stop.”—Entertainment Weekly Look for Téa Obreht’s second novel, Inland, now available. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times • Entertainment Weekly • The Christian Science Monitor • The Kansas City Star • Library Journal Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Téa Obreht, the youngest of The New Yorker’s twenty best A... continue