Galchen has written the best kind of historical novel: one that serves as a lens on our modern times.
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Galchen has written the best kind of historical novel: one that serves as a lens on our modern times.
A gorgeously told tale of really tough subjects — terror, betrayal, love, and more — and gives you a portrait of how awful it is to live under dictatorship
At its heart, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau is a story of stories — and a story of exile.
What I loved about Book of the Little Axe is how expertly Francis-Sharma wove histories of Trinidad, the American West, American Indigenous peoples, and enslaved peoples in the Americas.
In her debut novel, Zhang writes back into history the Chinese Americans who built the American West.
I wanted to like this! I just really did not.
“She does not want to remember but she is here and memory is gathering bones,” begins The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste’s epic novel about the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
Historical fiction! Violence! Queer characters! Lust! This book has it all!
Adrienne Celt’s book, Invitation to a Bonfire, pieces together diary pages from a fictional young woman named Zoya, and love letters from a fictional Russian writer named Leo "Lev" Orlov (based on Vladimir Nabokov). In doing so, she builds up sexual and violent tension to a point where I hit the end of the novel and thought, HOLY SHIT.
