Historical fiction genre books (1111)
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Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? by Anita Rau Badami EN
IndiaDescription:
LONGLIST 2008 - IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Anita Rau Badami's acclaimed novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? chronicles the stories of three women, linked in love and tragedy, over a span of fifty years, sweeping from the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 to the explosion of Air India flight 182 off the coast of Ireland in 1985. Alive with Badami's warmth and humanity, and brimming with the daily sights and sounds of both Canada and India, this novel brilliantly conveys the tumultuous effects of the past on new immigrants, and the ways in which memory and myth, the personal and the po... continue
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Carlota en Weimar by Thomas Mann ES
GermanyDescription:
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) es un clásico indiscutible de la literatura alemana. Hizo del ser humano, condicionado por su contexto político y social, y del conflicto que puede surgir entre la vida y el arte o la inteligencia, el centro de buena parte de su extensa obra narrativa, en la que destacan, entre otros títulos, Los Buddenbrook (1901), Tonio Kröger (1903), La muerte en Venecia (1912), La montaña mágica (1924), considerada a menudo su obra más importantes, Mario y el mago (1930), Carlota en Weimar (1939), Doktor Faustus (1947), El Elegido (1951) y Confesiones del estafador Felix Krull (1954... continue
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Carrie Soto Is Back : A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An epic adventure about a female athlete perhaps past her prime, brought back to the tennis court for one last grand slam” (Elle), from the author of Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo “The perfect novel to close out your summer.”—The Washington Post “Gorgeous. The kind of sharp, smart, potent book you have to set aside every few pages just to catch your breath. I’ll take a piece of Carrie Soto forward with me in life and be a little better for it.”—Emily Henry, author of Book Lovers and Beach Read Carrie Soto is fierce, ... continue
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Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra EN
SpainDescription:
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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Catherine the Great and the Small by Olja Knezevic, Ellen Elias-Bursac EN
Country: Europe / 
Montenegro
Montenegro
Description:
It's June in 1970s Montenegro; school's just let out and Catherine's head is full of Boney M lyrics and playing 'cops and robbers' with her summer crush. Then tragedy rips the heart from her little family and Catherine's life takes on a new trajectory.
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Catherine the Great and the Small by Olja Knezevic, Ellen Elias-Bursac EN
Country: Europe / Montenegro
Montenegro
Description:
It's June in 1970s Montenegro; school's just let out and Catherine's head is full of Boney M lyrics and playing 'cops and robbers' with her summer crush. Then tragedy rips the heart from her little family and Catherine's life takes on a new trajectory.
Iran159.
Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall EN
PolandDescription:
After the deportation of her husband to Auschwitzm Izolda Ragenberg, alias Maria Pawlicka, has only one aim: to free her husband. Her race to beat fate might appear absurd to others, but not to her. In times of war and destruction she learns to trust herself.
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Child of God by Cormac McCarthy EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • In this taut, chilling story, Lester Ballard—a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape—haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance. "Like the novelists he admires-Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner-Cormac McCarthy has created an imaginative oeuvre greater and deeper than any single book. Such writers wrestle with the gods themsel... continue