BNA_Daily | July 6, 2010
For fans of David Mitchell (the two-time Booker finalist and author of Cloud Atlas and Number9Dream), this week wasn’t about Eclipse–it was about the U.S. release of Mitchell’s long awaited fifth novel, The Thousand Autums of Jacob de Zoet. Unlike Mitchell’s first three novels, with postmodern tricks and genre shifts galore, Thousand Autums is a [...]
D_Burt | March 24, 2010
Arguably, the greatest of all historical novels, Tolstoy’s War and Peace found its shape and eccentric structure - part historical chronicle, part family saga, and part philosophical disquisition on human existence, free will, and historical necessity - in Tolstoy’s assault on the historical practices of his day. In the process, Tolstoy pioneered the means and [...]
BNA_Daily | June 2, 2009
Nothing can bring the past to life like historical fiction, and the infinite possibilities of this genre offer something for every reader. Unfortunately, the term “historical fiction” might not excite the average 10-year-old the way it would a grown-up history buff, but we found reading lists with tons of titles to choose from, including one [...]
