I'm in charge of picking my book clubs book for the month of March and it needs to be historical fiction! What's the best one you've ever read? My favorite I've read was Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon.
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a historical novel about the Dominican Republic under Trujillo, his assassination and the aftermath. The first person narrative shifts from the daughter of a powerful Senator who hates her father (you find out why at the end), the Senator, Trujillo and his assassins. There are graphic, violent torture scenes at the end and some rapey scenes throughout. This is outstanding literature with rich characters and historically accurate.
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Came to comment the Frozen River before I read the whole post. ☺️ love Kristin Hannah and Kristen Harmel also!
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.
Historical fiction about four generations of a Korean family in Japan. Emotional, powerful, and super readable.
It was a National Book Award finalist, won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and made the New York Times Best Books list.
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The Flashman papers by George MacDonald Fraser
Measuring the world by Daniel Kehlmann
Great Maria by Cecelia Holland.
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a historical novel about the Dominican Republic under Trujillo, his assassination and the aftermath. The first person narrative shifts from the daughter of a powerful Senator who hates her father (you find out why at the end), the Senator, Trujillo and his assassins. There are graphic, violent torture scenes at the end and some rapey scenes throughout. This is outstanding literature with rich characters and historically accurate.
Came to comment the Frozen River before I read the whole post. ☺️ love Kristin Hannah and Kristen Harmel also!
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.
Historical fiction about four generations of a Korean family in Japan. Emotional, powerful, and super readable.
It was a National Book Award finalist, won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and made the New York Times Best Books list.
The Things We Cannot Say, by Kelly Rimmer
The Giver of Stars