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24 of the Best Historical Fiction Books - Novels Inspired by History
She possessed a stunning beauty. She also possessed a stunning mind. Could the world handle both? Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star. But she kept a secret more shocking than her heritage or her marriage: she was a scientist.
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At the heart of the story is a poison book-a delicious dare to all who enter it. Who would have ever thought a car and a set of pearls could move one to tears. Roots captures the history of one family as it works its way out of slavery through the indomitability of the human spirit. Three friends form everlasting bonds, but are subsequently severed from each other as the reality of their circumstances set in.
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The delight of great historical fiction is the journey backward into a fully realized world, a specific time and place—the best of it working like the Wardrobe into Narnia, a kind of magic of imagination. It shows us a past both active and alive, full of human beings being. As I grew from a reader into a writer , I found myself writing that sort of novel and poising those types of questions. And what does that mean for us, now? Beloved blew the roof off my mind when I read it, both as a white American and as a writer starting out. It remains one of my touchstone novels. Another touchstone, this post-colonial epic told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price—a Baptist missionary who moves his family to the Congo in —ranges across three decades and chronicles the family's tragedy as it intertwines with a postcolonial Africa struggling to reconstruct its autonomy.
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