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Recommended historical fiction books (24)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into historical fiction here are some historical fiction books from Spain for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins EN

Rating: 4 (8 votes)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK "Extraordinary." --Stephen King "This book is not simply the great American novel; it's the great novel oflas Americas. It's the great world novel! This is the international story of our times. Masterful." --Sandra Cisneros También de este lado hay sueños.On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fa... continue

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Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
Follows the fortunes of the Estanyol family in medieval Barcelona, whose rise from peasantry is marked by their stoneworker son's role in building the Santa Maria del Mar cathedral and his forbidden love for a Jewish woman.

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Confessions by Jaume Cabré EN

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Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
Drawing comparisons with Shadow of the Wind, The Name of the Rose and The Reader, and an instant bestseller in more than 20 languages, Confessions is an astonishing story of one man s life, interwoven with a narrative that stretches across centuries to create an addictive and unforgettable literary symphony. I confess. At 60 and with a diagnosis of early Alzheimer s, Adri� Ard�vol re-examines his life before his memory is systematically deleted. He recalls a loveless childhood where the family antique business and his father s study become the centre of his world; where a treasured Storioni vi... continue

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Das Labyrinth der Lichter by Carlos Ruiz Zafón DE

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
Spanien in den bleiernen Tagen des Franco-Regimes: Ein Auftrag der Politischen Polizei führt die eigenwillige Alicia Gris von Madrid zurück in ihre Heimatstadt Barcelona. Unter größter Geheimhaltung soll sie das plötzliche Verschwinden des Ministers Mauricio Valls aufklären, dessen dunkle Vergangenheit als Direktor des Gefängnisses von Montjuïc ihn nun einzuholen scheint. In seinem Besitz befand sich ein geheimnisvolles Buch aus der Serie ›Das Labyrinth der Lichter‹, das Alicia auf schmerzliche Weise an ihr eigenes Schicksal erinnert. Es f... continue

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Das Spiel des Engels by Carlos Ruiz Zafón DE

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
Barcelona im turbulenten Jahrzehnt vor dem Spanischen Bürgerkrieg: Der junge David Martín fristet sein Leben als verkannter Schriftsteller. Der mysteriöse Verleger Andreas Corelli scheint an ihn zu glauben macht ihm ein Angebot.

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Der Schatten des Windes by Carlos Ruiz Zafón DE

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
In einem geheimnisvollen äFriedhof der vergessenen Bücherä darf sich der junge Daniel ein Buch aussuchen. Fasziniert von der Geschichte, die er liest, macht sich Daniel auf die Suche nach dem Autor und gerät dabei in grosse Gefahr.

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Garden by the Sea by Mercè Rodoreda EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
A Gatsby-esque novel about Spain in the 1920s on the eve of the Spanish Civil War


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Homeland by Fernando Aramburu EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
The story of two families in small-town Basque country, pitted against each other by the ideology of ETA, from 1980s to October 2011 when the group proclaimed an end to its savage insurgency. Told through a succession of more than one hundred short sections

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La catedral del mar by Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra, Ildefonso Falcones ES

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
La catedral del mar es una trama en la que se entrecruzan lealtad y venganza, traición y amor, guerra y peste, en un mundo marcado por la intolerancia religiosa, la ambición material y la segregación social. Todo ello convierte a esta obra no solo en una novela absorbente, sino también en la más fascinante y ambiciosa recreación de las luces y sombras de la época feudal.