Popular European Historical Fiction Books
Find historical fiction books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (250)
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Atlas: the Story of Pa Salt by Lucinda Riley, Harry Whittaker EN
IrelandDescription:
The final novel in the Seven Sisters series is here. Spanning a lifetime of love and loss, crossing borders and oceans, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, co-authored by her son Harry Whittaker, draws Lucinda Riley's saga to its stunning, unforgettable conclusion.
1928, Paris. A boy is found, moments from death, and taken in by a kindly family. Gentle, precocious, talented, he flourishes in his new home, and the family show him a life he hadn’t dreamed possible. But he refuses to speak a word about who he really is.
As he grows into a young man, falling in love and taking classes at... continue
France23.
Avril Brisé by Ismail Kadaré FR
AlbaniaDescription:
Deux histoires s'entrecroisent ici: celle de Gjorg, le jeune montagnard qui vient de venger la mort de son frère et qui attend le châtiment selon les termes du Kanun, et celle d'un jeune couple en voyage de noces, venu dans cette mème région pour étudier les coutumes ancestrales et sanglantes de cette vendetta d'honneur. L'action a beau se situer au début du xxe siècle, la vie sur les hauts plateaux d'Albanie nous enfonce dans le Moyen Age. Le choc est si grand pour la jeune mariée qu'il sera fatal à son bonheur. Et cette expérience tragique va faire basculer son époux, écrivain mondain, dans ... continue
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Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen EN
DenmarkDescription:
These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well known tales, ‘Babette’s Feast’, which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a French cook working in a puritanical Norwegian community, who treats her employers to the decadent feast of a lifetime. There is also a real-life Prospero and his Ariel in ‘Tempests’, a mysterious pearl-fisher in ‘The Diver’ and a brief, tragic encounter in ‘The Ring’. All the stories have a mystic, fairy-tale quality, linked by themes of angels, the sea, dreams and fate. They were among the last t... continue
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Bajo la sombra de los lobos by Alvydas Šlepikas ES
LithuaniaDescription:
"Acabada la Segunda Guerra Mundial, las mujeres y los niños alemanes de Prusia Oriental quedaron abandonados a su suerte ante el avance victorioso del Ejército Rojo. En medio de aquel terrible invierno, las mujeres trataron de ayudarse entre sí, mientras algunos niños se atrevieron a cruzar los bosques y la frontera para alcanzar Lituania y, una vez allí, pedir comida o trabajo a los granjeros y traer de vuelta lo que consiguieran. Esos niños conocieron la crueldad, la violencia, pero también la amabilidad y solidaridad, incluso el heroísmo. A esos niños los llamaron «los niños-lobo»."--Contra... continue
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Beyond Babylon by Igiaba Scego EN
ItalyDescription:
"Describes Argentina's horrific dirty war, the chaotic final years of brutal dictatorship in Somalia, and the modern-day excesses of Italy's right-wing politics through the words of two half-sisters, their mothers, and the elusive father who ties their stories together"--
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KosovoDescription:
From the author of National Book Award finalist Crossing comes an unlikely love story in Kosovo with unpredictable consequences that reverberates throughout a young man's life—a dazzling tale full of fury, tenderness, longing, and lust. “Devastating in the most beautiful ways. From the first pages you realize that you are in the hands of an absolute artist.” —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby April 1995. Arsim is a twenty-four-year-old, recently married student at the University of Pristina, in Kosovo, keeping his head down to gain a university degree in a time and place deeply hosti... continue
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Broken April by Ismail Kadare EN
Description:
Gjorg is a young mountaineer who (much against his will) has just killed a man in order to avenge the death of his older brother, and who expects to be killed himself in accordance with the Code that regulates life in the Albanian highlands. A young couple on their honeymoon has come to this place to study its age-old customs-including the blood feud. In Broken April, Ismail Kadare intersects the fates of both Gjorg and the young couple with visions of an unending cycle of obligatory murder and the horrifying effects it has on their respective lives. "Dostoevskian in its dark vision."--Kirkus ... continue
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Description:
In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when she is offered a job in America, she leaves her family to start a new life in Brooklyn, New York.
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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