Historical fiction genre books (1184)


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Dawn : A Novel by Elie Wiesel EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
Description:
Deals with the conflicts and thoughts of a young Jewish concentration-camp veteran as he prepares to assassinate a British hostage in occupied Palestine.

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Day : A Novel by Elie Wiesel EN

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Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
Description:
A Man seriously injured when hit by a car is taken to the hospital where a doctor, the woman who loves him, and his artist friend lead him to yearn for life rather than death.


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De gek van de tsaar by Jaan Kross NL

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Estonia flag Estonia
Description:
Een man die zijn belofte, de tsaar altijd de waarheid te vertellen gestand doet, wordt krankzinnig verklaard en tien jaar opgesloten.

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De Kaart van Zout en Sterren by Zeyn Joukhadar NL

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Betoverend boek voor fans van ‘De zoon van de verhalenverteller’. Hartverscheurend verhaal van een hedendaags Syrisch meisje en een middeleeuwse avonturier, beide verhalen zijn sterk en meeslepend. ‘De kaart van zout en sterren’ van Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar is een betoverend boek voor liefhebbers van ‘De zoon van de verhalenverteller’. Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar vertelt het hartverscheurende verhaal van een hedendaags Syrisch meisje en een middeleeuwse avonturier, en beide verhaallijnen zijn even sterk en meeslepend. Wanneer Nours vader overlijdt, besluit haar moeder met haar drie dochters ter... continue

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De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage EN

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Country: Asia / Lebanon flag Lebanon
Description:
In this explosive, captivating portrait of life in a war zone, two young men must choose their futures: to stay in the war-torn Beirut and consolidate power through crime, or to go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have known.

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De onzichtbaren by Roy Jacobsen NL

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Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
Begin 20ste eeuw groeit een meisje, letterlijk en figuurlijk, met tegenwind op op een eilandje voor de Noorse kust, dat niet te zien is vanaf de kust, maar vanwaar het vasteland wel te zien is.


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Dearest Intimate by Suchen Christine Lim EN

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Country: Asia / Malaysia flag Malaysia
Description:
From an award-winning Singaporean novelist comes a multi-layered tale about love, sisterhood, spousal abuse, and Cantonese opera in the lives of three generations of women--all set against the dramatic sweep of Singapore's development The famous cross-dressing Cantonese opera singer Chan Kam Foong passes away, leaving her secret journal to her granddaughter, Xiu Yin, an archival officer at the Singapore National Archives. Xiu Yin reads through the journal that chronicles her grandmother's relationship with Dearest Intimate in their village in China to their respective escapes to the Nanyang be... continue

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Death Comes for the Archbishop : Introduction by A. S. Byatt by Willa Cather EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Description:
Willa Cather’s story of the missionary priest Father Jean Marie Latour and his work of faith in the wilderness of the Southwest is told with a spare but sensuous directness and profound artistry—with an Introduction by A. S. Byatt. When Latour arrives in 1851 in the territory of New Mexico, newly acquired by the United States, what he finds is a vast desert region of red hills and tortured arroyos that is American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. Over the next four decades, Latour works gently and tirelessly to spread his faith and to build a soaring cathedral out of the loc... continue