Showing results for "Levi" in Historical Fiction

Se questo è un uomo: Con ostinazione e pacatezza, Primo Levi non ha mai smesso di cercare le parole per raccontare l’atrocità della deportazione e del campo di sterminio di Auschwitz, in cui venne internato dal febbraio 1944 al 27 gennaio 1945. La tregua: La tregua è il libro del ritorno, dove Primo Levi racconta le sue esperienze durante il lungo viaggio attraverso Russia e Europa dell’Est per tornare alla sua Torino. Un viaggio assurdo, fatto di incontri con persone di civiltà e lingue diverse ma tutte vittime della stessa guerra.

On a bitter winter day in 1887, Charlotte Earnshaw’s life will change forever—for she will meet the dark avenging stranger who will force her father’s return to Africa: Jasim Bin Rashid, the prince of Zanzibar. In her quest to find her long lost true love Geoffrey, Charlotte falls prey to Mal d’Afrique, the dark secret of Eastern Africa and all its perils. Even as she returns to her beloved Cornwall, danger awaits in the sinister form of her predatory brother-in-law Derek Gallwey, and she must decide ultimately where her heart lies.

From a New York Times bestselling author Lauren Grodstein, a story inspired by a little-known piece of history in the lives of Jewish occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II. Called a "masterpiece", and as seen on The Today Show with Jenna pick (Madeline Miller). On a November day in 1940...

Levi found out how much void a woman could fill in his heart. But the heartache and betrayal wasn’t worth it. He was better off alone…wasn’t he?

She has a job to do...Cadence Walker joins the Pinkerton agency, seeking justice for those who'd wronged her. When she receives the assignment to locate a missing agent and prevent an attack that would affect the future of the newly united nation, she embarks on a race to the finish with a man whose eyes fill her with hope and whose kiss promises a second chance at love.

What if everything we’ve been taught about history was told through the eyes of power? From the Roman Republic to the transatlantic slave trade, from the invention of race to the soul of the child, this book rewrites the story of humanity—not through kings and empires, but through the people who dared to resist them.