Political Historical Fiction

康有为、杨度、刘师培、周作人、冯友兰，这五位历史人物，他们在乱世面前，在无路可走或“歧路纷出”面前，陷入了极度的精神困境……康有為、楊度、劉師培、周作人、馮友蘭，這五位歷史人物，他們在亂世面前，在無路可走或「歧路紛出」面前，陷入了極度的精神困境……

Recruited by a foreign power in postwar Paris and sent to Washington, Winston Bates is without training or talent. He might be a walking definition of the anti-spy. Yet he makes his way onto the staff of the powerful Senator Richard Russell, head of the Armed Services Committee. From that perch, Bates has extensive and revealing contacts with the Dulles brothers, Richard Bissell, Richard Helms, Lyndon Johnson, Joe Alsop, Walter Lippman, Roy Cohn, and even Ollie North - to name but a few of the historical players in the American experience Winston befriends - and haplessly betrays for a quarter century.

In the time of Vespasian, just after Rome has crushed the Jewish Revolt, Julius Varro, a Roman Questor (an investigating magistrate ) is commissioned to investigate the story that a Jew rose from the dead after being crucified in Jerusalem. Because the fast-growing Nazarene sect founded by the martyr's followers is becoming a threat to the stability of the region, there is much riding on debunking the story.

Gonzalo Gil is a disaffected lawyer stuck in a failed career and a strained marriage, dodging the never-ending manipulation of his powerful father-in-law. The fragile balance of Gonzalo’s life as a father and husband is pushed to the limit when he learns, after years without news of his estranged sister, Laura, that she has committed suicide under suspicious circumstances. Resolutely investigating the steps that led to her death, Gonzalo discovers that Laura is believed to have murdered a Russian gangster who kidnapped and killed her young son.

Amor y desamor, exilios y desencuentros, erotismo y búsqueda de la identidad marcan el relato. El mejor testimonio para ejercitar la memoria colectiva con una historia terrible y lúcida, de acertados toques psicológicos. Ezequiel Szafir ahonda en la historia reciente de Argentina y hace de la literatura el mejor testimonio de la memoria colectiva. Una novela que plantea también un debate ético: ¿deben los hijos pagar las culpas de sus padres?, ¿existen barreras insalvables para el amor cuando el límite excede las posibilidades aceptables?

Paganina nasce negli anni Trenta, da un padre così ateo che voleva chiamarla Ateina (ma poi non se l'era sentita). Paganina ha un carattere forte e indipendente, e una inclinazione per l'eroismo e gli eroi. Così quando incontra Guglielmo, che è stato partigiano con suo fratello Spartaco e ha fatto saltare da solo un camion di tedeschi, sa che è lui l'eroe che vuole al suo fianco. Le basta presentarsi, "Sono Paganina", per dare inizio a un amore che attraverserà tutta la vita. Una vita che sarà percorsa da altre grandi passioni, su tutte quella della politica.

Deyal is the story has begun with a typical "Humayun Ahmed plot" - beautiful girl from a well-off broken family falls in love with the home tutor. Then came the events of Mujib assassination, the 1975 coup at the jail, and lastly Zia’s rise to power and the aftermath ending with Taher’s verdict. This political novel based on the sociopolitical crisis that followed the war of independence in Bangladesh.

Durante o conturbado período da ditadura militar, dois adolescentes, amigos de escola, incorporam as contradições que marcaram os anos de chumbo: de um lado, a direita, tida como reacionária; de outro, a esquerda, que se autoproclamava progressista. Nesse embate, quase sempre maniqueísta, um deles se entregará à luta armada, da qual não sairá ileso emocional e socialmente; o outro, vindo da classe trabalhadora, almejará uma posição na elite abastada paulistana, à qual o primeiro pertence.

A través dels preparatius d’un sopar de retrobament, assistim a la reviviscència de les experiències iniciàtiques de la generació que va combatre contra els estertors del franquisme: l’arribada a la ciutat, el descobriment del sexe, les inquietuds vitals i artístiques, els embolics de la política… Al mateix temps que un retrat d’aquell moment històric, la novel·la mostra també la diversitat dels camins que emprenen els personatges, la distància que els separa, el passat que els lliga i la pervivència dels morts.

El humor se convierte en el arma que se defiende de la opresión, la injusticia, y la violencia. El gran solitario de Palacio es una obra sobre México, y sin embargo tiene algo del efecto globalizador que caracterizó al Boom latinoamericano: escrita en México, París, y Madrid, se publicó por primera vez en 1971 en Argentina; y de alguna manera representa una realidad que se ha repetido una y otra vez en la historia de Latinoamérica.

In a riveting novel rooted in one of American history's great "what ifs," Jim Lehrer tells the story of two men haunted by the events leading up to John F. Kennedy's assassination. November 22, 1963. As Air Force One touches down in Dallas, ambitious young newspaper reporter Jack Gilmore races to get the scoop on preparations for President Kennedy's motorcade. Will the bubble top on the presidential limousine be up or down? Down, according to veteran Secret Service agent Van Walters.

Nineteen fifty-three is synonymous in the British memory with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June. But less well known is what happened in 10 Downing Street on 23 June. With Anthony Eden vying for power, the elderly prime minister, Winston Churchill, must maintain the confidence of his government, the press and the public. But after a diplomatic dinner at which he is in typically sparkling form, Churchill's Italian dining companions are rushed out of the building, and his doctor called.

Gogol's great comic masterpiece paints an hilariously satirical picture of provincial life in 19th century Russia. Its publication in 1847 not only provided inspiration for succeeding generations of Russian writers, but fanned the already flickering flames of social discontent which were eventually to flare up and consume Russia in the revolution of 1917.

Questionable police tactics didn't begin in 2014. The awareness and threats caused by aggressive police actions have recently changed, but they're not without precedent. A city manager has the inside story. Listen to Power Play, a story set in the 1970s when blind trust was too often the case: deceit, revenge, militaristic police, affected legal system, and gay tragedy; the end of the Hoover era, amidst the death throes of the Nixon debacle. The author has captured an era, depicting a battle for the soul of the Republic, at the local level.

These nineteen stories follow the paths of men and women, immigrants, minorities, and the poor, suffering from injustice and inequality. Written in the 1940s, Fast's clear-eyed and lively tales examine a world reeling from war and plagued by social unrest. With stories set in New York City, Europe, and India, this collection shares a remarkable global vision. Written during the rising Communist scare, Departure is a defiantly leftist portrait of a complex and ever-changing world.

En plena dictadura chilena, un angustiado hombre llega a las oficinas de una revista de oposición. Es un agente de la policía secreta. Quiero hablar, dice, y una periodista prende su grabadora para escuchar un testimonio que abrirá las puertas de una dimensión hasta entonces desconocida. Siguiendo la hebra de esta escena real, Nona Fernández activa los mecanismos de la imaginación para acceder a aquellos rincones donde la memoria y los archivos no han podido llegar.

"L'hiver du mécontentement", c'est ainsi que le journal le "Sun" qualifia l'hiver 1978-1979, où des grèves monstrueuses paralysèrent des mois durant la Grande-Bretagne. Voici venir l'hiver de notre mécontentement, ce sont aussi les premiers mots que prononce Richard III dans la pièce de Shakespeare. Ce personnage, la jeune Candice va le jouer, dans une mise en scène exclusivement féminine. Entre deux tournées à vélo pour livrer des courriers dans un Londres en proie au désordre, elle cherchera à comprendre qui est Richard III et le sens de sa conquête du pouvoir.

Set largely in the culture-blending Vieux Port of Marseille at the height of the Jazz Age, the novel takes flight along with Lafala, an acutely disabled but abruptly wealthy West African sailor. While stowing away on a transatlantic freighter, Lafala is discovered and locked in a frigid closet. Badly frostbitten by the time the boat docks, the once-nimble dancer loses both of his lower legs, emerging from life-saving surgery as what he terms "an amputated man." Thanks to an improbably successful lawsuit against the shipping line, however, Lafala scores big in the litigious United States.

In the small village of Curon in South Tyrol, 17-year-old Trina longs for a different life. She dedicates herself to becoming a teacher, but the year that she qualifies - 1923 - Mussolini's regime abolishes the use of German as a teaching language in the annexed Austrian territory. Defying their ruthless program of forced Italianization, Trina works for a clandestine network of schools in the valley, always with the risk of capture.

Il raggio d'ombra si ispira liberamente a un fatto accaduto nel 1927: un evaso politico trova rifugio presso alcuni compagni clandestini, ma si rivela una spia e li fa arrestare. Tra le vittime anche un medico milanese, diviso tra moglie e amante, che per amicizia aveva dato ospitalità all'evaso e ne vedrà la propria carriera annientata.