Allende’s fluidly written saga conveys her deep familiarity with the events she depicts, and her intent to illustrate their human impact in a moving way. The scope spans most of the lives of Victor Dalmau, a Republican army medic in 1936 Spain, and Roser Bruguera, a music student taken in by Victor’s family and, later, his brother Guillem’s lover and the mother of Guillem’s child. The story follows them over nearly sixty years, beginning with the tumult of the Spanish Civil War. Guillem is killed fighting against the Fascists, news that Victor can’t bear to tell Roser initially. After surviving separate and terrible circumstances that leave them refugees in France, where authorities treat them with contempt and worse, the two marry for practical reasons in order to join Pablo Neruda’s mission transporting over 2000 Spanish exiles to Chile aboard the S.S. Winnipeg . In Santiago, the Dalmaus find many Chileans sympathetic to the Spaniards, while others make them unwelcome. With a poetic ...
In putting together another visual preview post for 2019, I came upon some historical novel covers with bright colors and designs that refuse to be ignored. And then I found a few more. Here are ten, below. You can make almost a full rainbow with all of these. What do you think - does the effect work on you? Just the settings and the book's publishers are listed below... head on over to Goodreads for more.
A scientific race across Russia in 1914, at the time of a major solar eclipse. Grand Central, May 2019. [see on Goodreads]
A controversial art scandal involving Van Gogh's paintings, set in decadent and dangerous 1920s Berlin. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, July 2019. [see on Goodreads]
Glamour, passion, and coming of age in New York's exciting theater world in the 1940s. Riverhead, June 2019. [see on Goodreads]
Historical fantasy involving aerial adventure in WWI France; second in a series. Simon & Schuster, July 2019. [see on Goodreads]
Events from the life of future poet Elizabeth Bishop, during her time in Paris in 1937. Simon & Schuster, June 2019. [see on Goodreads]
An independent African American woman in small-town North Carolina, between 1941 and the 1980s. Bloomsbury, June 2019. [see on Goodreads]
A family saga set during the Depression-era Dust Bowl. Central Avenue, June 2019. [see on Goodreads]
A scientific race across Russia in 1914, at the time of a major solar eclipse. Grand Central, May 2019. [see on Goodreads]
A controversial art scandal involving Van Gogh's paintings, set in decadent and dangerous 1920s Berlin. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, July 2019. [see on Goodreads]
Glamour, passion, and coming of age in New York's exciting theater world in the 1940s. Riverhead, June 2019. [see on Goodreads]
Historical fantasy involving aerial adventure in WWI France; second in a series. Simon & Schuster, July 2019. [see on Goodreads]
The female divers of the Korean island of Jeju, spanning from the 1930s through 1950s. Scribner, March 2019. [see on Goodreads]
Two American sisters' lives, from the 1950s going forward. June 2019, Atria. [see on Goodreads]
Events from the life of future poet Elizabeth Bishop, during her time in Paris in 1937. Simon & Schuster, June 2019. [see on Goodreads]
Espionage and scandal in the Bahamas in 1941, when the Duke and Duchess of Windsor are in residence there. William Morrow, July 2019. [see on Goodreads]
An independent African American woman in small-town North Carolina, between 1941 and the 1980s. Bloomsbury, June 2019. [see on Goodreads]
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