The Jewel in the Crown is a 1966 novel by Paul Scott that begins his Paradise Quartet. The Quartet novel sequence in four volumes is set in the last days of British rule in India during World War II.
"The Orchid Empress" by author Anchee Min tells the powerful and complex life story of Zhen Ying, a powerful and ambitious woman who, growing up in a rural Chinese village, tries to find her way in a turbulent period of Chinese history.
Big families is Drion's best novel. In it, the writer, in a very vivid and striking way, gave a cross-section of French society after the First World War: some characters of the novel become like living witnesses of their time.
Kosmos, 1960.
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With the brilliant debut of Heike Geißler, she conquered the German audience. With a novel about a girl who leaves her newborn baby because she feels she is losing control over her own life and desires, the author tells the story of a generation of lost p