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Generational & Family Sagas
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Search results: The best new books - Excerpts & reviews from exceptional books with a family saga as a central theme
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A Bit of Difference
by Sefi Atta
Paperback: 17 Dec 2012
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| A new novel from the winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. |
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A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Parts
by Sebastian Faulks
Hardcover: Dec 2012
Paperback: 26 Nov 2013
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| From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war—five transporting stories and five unforgettable lives, linked across centuries. |
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The Undertow: A Novel
by Jo Baker
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 11 Dec 2012
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| The American debut of an enthralling new voice: a vivid, indelibly told work of fiction that follows four generations of a family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century - a novel about inheritance, about fate and passion, and about what it means to truly break free of the past. |
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The Girl Who Fell to Earth: A Memoir
by Sophia Al-Maria
Paperback: 27 Nov 2012
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| The Girl Who Fell to Earth heralds the arrival of an electric new talent and takes us on the most personal of quests: the voyage home. |
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The Paris Wife: A Novel
by Paula McLain
Hardcover: Feb 2011
Paperback: 27 Nov 2012
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| A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley. |
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Across Many Mountains: A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom
by Yangzom Brauen
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 30 Oct 2012
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| An extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence. |
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The Casual Vacancy
by J.K. (Joanne) Rowling
Hardcover: Sep 2012
Paperback: 18 Jul 2013
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| Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults. |
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Telegraph Avenue
by Michael Chabon
Hardcover: Sep 2012
Paperback: 10 Sep 2013
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| Telegraph Avenue is the great American novel we've been waiting for. Generous, imaginative, funny, moving, thrilling, humane, triumphant, it is Michael Chabon's most dazzling book yet. |
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