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Refugee is a young adult literature novel by Alan Gratz published by Scholastic Corporation in 2019. The book revolves around three main characters from three different eras: early Nazi Germany , 1980s Cuba , and modern-day Syria .
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852.The novel, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre Glendinning; his widowed mother; Glendinning Stanly, his cousin; Lucy Tartan, his fiancée; and Isabel Banford, who is revealed to be his half-sister.
The Safekeep is the 2024 debut novel from Dutch author Yael van der Wouden.The novel, set in 1961 Netherlands, tells the story of Isabel (Isa), a recluse who is living alone and meticulously tending to the family home in Overijssel province.
Bestselling author Isabel Allende spoke about the current "anti-immigrant" sentiment, book bans, women's rights, Latin America and what is left for her to write, in a wide-ranging interview with ...
Told through fictional characters in the context of real historical events, [2] [3] the story takes place partly during the Spanish Civil War and partly in Chile where the protagonists again witness the fight between freedom and repression. [4] A Long Petal of the Sea became the most popular book in Spain between April 2019 and April 2020. [5]
The Book Thief is a 2013 war drama film directed by Brian Percival and starring Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, and Sophie Nélisse. The film is based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Markus Zusak and adapted by Michael Petroni. The film is about a young girl living with her adoptive German family during the Nazi era.
Isabel is a Spanish historical fiction television series, directed by Jordi Frades and produced by Diagonal TV for Televisión Española. The series is based upon the reign of Queen Isabella I of Castile . [ 1 ]
Isabel Angelica Allende Llona (Latin American Spanish: [isaˈβel aˈʝende] ⓘ; born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American [6] [7] writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002), which have been commercially ...