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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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Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love, War, and Survival
by Owen Matthews
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 1 Sep 2009
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| An indelible portrait of Russia over seven decades and an unforgettable memoir about how we struggle to define ourselves in opposition to our ancestry only to find ourselves aligning with it. |
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Home: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 1 Sep 2009
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| Home parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. It is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. |
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The Blue Star
by Tony Earley
Hardcover: Mar 2008
Paperback: 26 Aug 2009
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| Jim Glass has fallen in love with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately, Chrissie is Bucky Bucklaw's girlfriend, and Bucky has joined the navy on the eve of war. Jim vows to win Chrissie's heart in his absence, but the war makes high school less than a safe haven and gives a young man's emotions a grown man's gravity. |
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The Nightingales of Troy
by Alice Fulton
Hardcover: Jul 2008
Paperback: 13 Jul 2009
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| Set in Troy, New York, this linked collection follows a quirky and resilient family of women throughout the twentieth century. |
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The Hakawati
by Rabih Alameddine
Hardcover: Apr 2008
Paperback: 2 Jun 2009
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| An inventive, exuberant novel that takes us from the shimmering dunes of ancient Egypt to the war-torn streets of twenty-first-century Lebanon. |
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America America: A Novel
by Ethan Canin
Hardcover: Jun 2008
Paperback: 19 May 2009
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| A stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era and today, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young man’s life. |
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Burnt Shadows: A Novel
by Kamila Shamsie
Paperback: 27 Apr 2009
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| Beginning on August 9, 1945, in Nagasaki, and ending in a prison cell in the US in 2002, as a man is waiting to be sent to Guantanamo Bay, Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of love and betrayal. |
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Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Hardcover: Apr 2008
Paperback: 14 Apr 2009
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| Eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any Lahiri has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers. |
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