Literary Fiction War

"Thrilling… Scibona has built a masterpiece." – The New York Times Book Review "All of it — all of it — is just so ridiculously beautiful." – Jason Sheehan, NPR.org "The rewards are enormous. This is a spectacular work of fiction." – San Francisco Chronicle A long-awaited new...

In the turbulent summer of 1968, four high school friends make a pact that will change their lives forever. As the Vietnam War rages overseas, four friends make a vow. For the next two weeks, they will live for each other and for each day. Then, at the end of the two weeks, they will sacrifice...

From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a haunting new novel of spies and artists, passion and danger, hope in the face of despair Paris, 1939. The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs-Élysées. A young, unknown writer—Samuel Beckett—recently...

Ucraina, 1941.Tutto inizia con l'Operazione Barbarossa, l'attacco nazista all'Unione Sovietica. Tra i primi a varcare il confine tra Germania e Russia c'è un giovane capitano dell'esercito tedesco: il suo nome è Martin Bora, il detective che ha reso celebre Ben Pastor. Colto, distaccato, compassionevole e nel contempo severo, anche in Russia Bora sarà costretto a dare prova del suo talento investigativo, inciampando quasi subito nel cadavere mutilato di una contadina.

Moving effortlessly through a range of styles, from contemporary realist fiction and episodic adventures to three-act plays and polyvocal narratives, Boyko’s chameleon talents reveal the thread that binds his disparate characters and plots: the hunger to hold power and all the ways we are consumed by it. Clear-eyed but not cynical, satirical without being sarcastic, The Children’s War is as entertaining as it is insightful.

A young girl's disappearance rocks a community and a family in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice, and the atrocities of war from Joyce Carol Oates, ""one of the great artistic forces of our time"" (The Nation) Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing...

Gina Perini manages a bookstore in one of San Francisco's most lively neighborhoods. Although she thrives in her world of books, her harrowing escape from the war in the Balkans years earlier remains fresh in her mind. There are still those who are searching for her and who are intent on vengeance. Gina suddenly gets news that someone from her past is still alive - someone she had given up hope of finding. This sets in motion a chain of events that will stretch across the country and push her love and resourcefulness to the limit.

Berlino, 9 luglio del 1944. Il tenente colonnello Martin Bora, ex agente dell'Abwehr, il servizio segreto della Wehrmacht, è in arrivo dal fronte italiano. Ha ottenuto una licenza - con sua sorpresa considerato lo sforzo bellico - per partecipare ai funerali dello zio, un illustre clinico in rotta con il regime nazista. Voci indiscrete sul suicidio dello zio, strenuo oppositore del progetto medico nazista "vite inutili", lo insospettiscono. E intorno, incontri che sembrano provocazioni gli fanno percepire qualcosa di strano nell'atmosfera.

Eine genial erzählte Geschichte über Menschlichkeit in einem der dunkelsten Kapitel der Weltgeschichte! Im Jahr 1944 tobt der Zweite Weltkrieg. Auf einem Bauernhof in Österreich taucht eines Tages das Flüchtlingsmädchen Nelli auf; traumatisiert, allein und ohne jegliche Erinnerung. Die Bauernfamilie Leithner nimmt die Jugendliche bei sich auf und versucht, ihr ein sicheres Zuhause zu bieten. Doch dann tritt ein weiterer Fremder in ihr Leben: ein junger Russe, dessen wertvollster Besitz ein geheimnisvolles Gemälde ist.

London. December 1981. The IRA is on the attack, a cold war is being waged, another war is just over the horizon, and Stephen Donaldson spends his days listening. When he first joined the Institute, he expected to encounter glamorous, high-risk espionage. Instead he gets the tape-recorded conversations of ancient Communists and ineffectual revolutionaries - until the day he is assigned a new case: the ultra-secret PHOENIX, a suspected internal leak.

From Susan Vreeland, bestselling author of such acclaimed novels as Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Luncheon of the Boating Party, and Clara and Mr. Tiffany, comes a richly imagined story of a woman’s awakening in the south of Vichy France—to the power of art, to the beauty of provincial life, and to...

"Exciting, exhilaring, scary and moving in equal measure, The Oversight is a teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realized." -- M. R. Carey The Last Hand of the Oversight still patrols the border between the natural and supranatural, holding a candle to the darkness. But this...

December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family’s summer cottage was filled with laughter. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live.

Anden verdenskrig raser. I "Det skal vi huske dem" følger vi to arbejderfamilier i henholdsvis Tyskland og Danmark, der på hver sin måde forsøger at kæmpe mod nazistyret, og hvor konsekvenserne af deres indsatser er meget forskellige. Ved bogens afslutning er krigen også ved at få sin, men det der er tilbage af tilværelsen, hverdagen og Tyskland synes at være en ugenopbyggelig ruin. Hvordan skal de komme tilbage til livet? Ditte Cederstrand (1915-1984) var dansk forfatter.

A woman is pulled into a love affair with a radical activist, unknowingly echoing her family’s dangerous past and risking the foundations of her future in this electrifying novel. “An exhilarating novel of star-crossed romances and radical politics, with writing so evocative I swear I could...

A landmark collection: the first anthology of short fiction by Afghan women that are "powerful, profound, and deeply moving" (Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees, a Reese's Book Club pick) "My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think...

"Krigsdøtre" er historien om to danske kvinders liv og skæbne. Karen Jeppe der har viet sit liv til at hjælpe det forfulgte armenske folk, mens Johanne er til udlandet i jagten på en karriere. Den danske forfatter Elisabeth Lyneborg (f. 1939) har slået sine folder vidt omkring. Hun har eksempelvis arbejdet som engelsk korrespondent i 1958-60 efterfulgt af et studieophold i Frankrig (1960-61), hvorefter hun vendte tilbage til Danmark, hvor hun fik optagelse som skuespillerelev ved Århus Teater i 1961-62.

A captivating and intimate debut novel interwoven with folktale and myth, Wendy Chen’s Their Divine Fires tells the story of the love affairs of three generations of Chinese women across one hundred years of revolutions both political and personal. In 1917, at the dawn of the Chinese...

Im Frühjahr 1945 soll ein dreijähriger Junge vom KZ Buchenwald nach Auschwitz überführt werden. Das würde den Tod des Jungen bedeuten. Daher nehmen einige KZ-Häftlinge das Kind unter ihre Obhut. Gegen alle Vernunft verstecken zwei Häftlinge das Kind, obwohl sie damit die Vorbereitungen des illegalen Lagerkomitees für einen Aufstand gefährden. Das Überleben des Jungen wird zum Sinnbild für den Überlebenswillen der Häftlinge. Der Roman entstand frei nach Motiven einer wahren Begebenheit.

"Wiesenstein" ist die Geschichte eines irrend-liebenden Genies und einer untergehenden und sich doch dagegenstemmenden Welt. Ein überwältigender Roman. Der alte Mann, eine Berühmtheit, Nobelpreisträger, verlässt mit seiner Frau das Sanatorium, wo beide Erholung gesucht haben, und wird mit militärischem Begleitschutz zum Zug gebracht. Doch es ist März 1945, das Sanatorium Dr. Weidner liegt im eben zerstörten Dresden und der Zug fährt nach Osten. Gerhart und Margarete Hauptmann nämlich wollen nirgendwo anders hin als nach Schlesien, in ihre Villa "Wiesenstein", ein prächtiges Anwesen im Riesengebirge.