by Michael Ondaatje
Recommended by Meghan Markle and Daniel José Older
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Historical Fiction and Fiction.
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prizewinning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, ...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Historical Fiction and Fiction.
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Daniel José Older
American fantasy and young adult fiction writer (1980–)
“There are so many but The English Patient comes to mind first. The movie really...did something different. But that book...whew.”
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Consider The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Recommended by 5 sources.
“This sprawling, detail-rich historical novel follows cathedral builders, nobles, and townspeople across decades, delivering immersive scene-setting and a steady accumulation of plotlines. Its useful part is the sustained attention to craft—architecture, politics, rivalry—that makes the medieval world tangible. The main limitation is repetitive melodrama and swings in pacing: long, satisfying set pieces sit beside stretches that feel slow or contrived. Better read slowly rather than skimmed; readers who stick it out will find payoff in the concluding convergences.”
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