Nastasia Fiorentino

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Christ Stopped at Eboli book review Christ Stopped at Eboli...

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Autobiographical novel. The writer narrates his exile, between 1935 and 1936, in a small town in southern Italy, infested...

Categoría Historical fiction Carlo Levi
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circus of wonders book review Circus of Wonders Book...

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England, 19th century. On its long tour to raise enough money to perform in London, Jasper Jupiter’s circus stops...

Categoría Historical fiction Elizabeth Macneal
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Closely Watched Trains book review Closely Watched Trains Book...

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At the end of the Second World War, in a remote place in Czechoslovakia, Milos, a 22-year-old man who...

Categoría Historical fiction Bohumil Hrabal
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fathers and sons book review Fathers and Sons Book...

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Fathers and Sons is the story of Arkady Kirsanov, a Russian man who returns home after graduating from St....

Categoría Historical fiction Ivan Turgenev
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Le Bal and Snow in Autumn book review Le Bal and Snow...

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Mr. and Mrs. Kampfs are an extravagant couple who live in a luxurious apartment in Paris, and one day...

Categoría Historical fiction Irène Némirovsky
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Men and not men book review Men and not men...

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The story is set in Milan at the beginning of the Second World War and follows the adventures of...

Categoría Historical fiction Elio Vittorini
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Mother Earth Father Sky book review Mother Earth Father Sky...

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Aleutian Islands, 7000 BC
After losing her family because of a ruthless clan of hunters who wiped out...

Categoría Historical fiction Sue Harrison
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the Assyrian book review The Assyrian Book Review

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Assyria, 7th century BC
The son of the king and a Greek concubine, Tiglath Ashur, tells his life...

Categoría Historical fiction Nicholas Guild
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the baron in the trees book review The Baron in the...

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After an argument with his parents, Cosimo, a twelve-year-old boy from a noble Ligurian family from Ombrosa, climbs a...

Categoría Historical fiction Italo Calvino
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The Clan of the Cave Bear book review The Clan of the...

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Palaeolithic. Ayla, a five-year-old girl who lost her family in a violent earthquake, wanders alone in an unknown land...

Categoría Historical fiction Jean M. Auel
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The Emperor’s Tomb book review The Emperor’s Tomb Book...

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Francesco Trotta is a young Viennese aristocrat who leaves his comfortable life in the city to live more simply...

Categoría Historical fiction Joseph Roth
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the quest for fire book review The Quest for Fire...

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A novel set in prehistoric times, when the discovery of fire had improved the lives of primitive tribes and...

Categoría Historical fiction Joseph Henry Rosny ainé
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the reader book review The Reader Book Review

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Germany, late 1950s. Michael Berg is a fifteen-year-old boy who one day meets a thirty-year-old blonde, blue-eyed woman named...

Categoría Historical fiction Bernhard Schlink
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