Historical Fiction in Large Type |
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- Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace.
- A young housemaid is accused of murder in 19th-century Canada; based on a true story.
- Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha.
- A geisha looks back on her repressed yet beguiling way of life in traditional Japan.
- Pete Hamill, Snow in August.
- In 1940s Brooklyn, the friendship between an Irish Catholic boy and a rabbi helps each to heal wartime wounds.
- Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River.
- Set in a small town in Nazi Germany; a dwarf who had been the town gossip becomes a teller of truth and history in a time of lies.
- John Jakes, American Dreams.
- Sequel to Homeland; a family saga of early-20th-century Chicago and Hollywood.
- Thomas Moran, The Man in the Box.
- Intertwining relationships between an Austrian doctor and those who shelter him during the Holocaust.
- Toni Morrison, Paradise.
- In an Oklahoma town, conflicts arise among the all African-American populace when four women set up housekeeping.
- Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient.
- Four damaged survivors: an Indian adventurer, a spy-thief, an American nurse and her dying English patient, connect in an Italian villa in 1945.
- Jane Smiley, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton.
- Following her abolitionist husband to Kansas, a young woman experiences all the drama and violence of the antebellum years.
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