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The Quiet American (1955) is set in Vietnam in the 1950s, during the French colonial struggle against the insurgents. Through the atmosphere of Saigon, Greene creates a tense story of love and political intrigue, with a strong critique of the Vietnam War
Lovrenović's novel Chronicle or Martyrology follows three Bosnian friars whose manuscripts connect events across two centuries of Bosnian history, from the Sultan's reforms, the Austro-Hungarian occupation, the First and Second World Wars, to the NDH and
An epic novel that traces the history of the eponymous bay on the east coast of the United States from the 16th century to the 1970s. Through generations of family and historical events, Michener explores man's relationship with nature, social change, and
Italy, 1492. Her name is Sancha of Aragon. The beautiful illegitimate daughter of Alfonso II. Napuljski only feels contempt for his father's callousness.
In 1506, Michelangelo Buonarroti was invited by Sultan Bayezid II to design a bridge across the Golden Horn in Constantinople. Furious at Pope Julius II who had humiliated him and refused to pay, Michelangelo left Rome and arrived by ship in Constantinopl
Jiří Šotola's quasi-historical novel Pile on a Spit depicts the absurdity of life through the story of the antihero – the puppeteer Matija Pile (Matěj Kuře), a puppeteer of history during the Napoleonic Wars. The novel criticizes totalitarianism through b