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Markus Zusak Markus Frank Zusak (born 23 June 1975) is an Australian writer. He is best known for "The Book Thief" and "The Messenger" (US title, "I Am the Messenger"), two novels for young adults which have been international best-sellers. He won the annual Margaret A. Edwards Award in 2014 for his contributions to young-adult literature published in the US.
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The Book Thief The Book Thief is a 2005 historical novel by Australian author Markus Zusak and is his most popular work.
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The Judge and His Hangman The Judge and His Hangman (German: Der Richter und sein Henker ) is a 1950 novel by the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt. It was first published in English in 1954, in a translation by Cyrus Brooks and later in a translation by Therese Pol. A new translation by Joel Agee appeared in 2006, published together with it sequel "Suspicion", as "The Inspector Bärlach Mysteries," with a foreword by Sven Birkerts. Together with Dürrenmatt's "", these stories are considered classics of crime fiction, fusing existential philosophy and the detective genre.
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Fritz Steuben Erhard Wittek (3 December 1898 – 4 June 1981), better known for his pen name Fritz Steuben, was a German author who wrote war novels and stories depicting American Indians (particularly the life of the Shawnee chief Tecumseh). Steuben wrote war novels based on personal experiences in World War I (especially "Durchbruch anno achtzehn. Ein Fronterlebnis" <Breakthrough anno eighteen. A front experience> Stuttgart:Franckh, 1933) and other novels under his birth name.
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In Desert and Wilderness In Desert and Wilderness (Polish: "W pustyni i w puszczy" ) is a popular young adult novel by Polish author and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz, written in 1911. It is the author's only novel written for children/teenagers. "In Desert and Wilderness" tells the story of two young friends, Staś Tarkowski (14 years old) and Nel Rawlison (8 years old), kidnapped by rebels during Mahdi's rebellion in Sudan. It was adapted for film twice, in 1973 and in 2001.
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Jewish response to The Forty Days of Musa Dagh "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" is a 1933 novel by the Austrian-Jewish author Franz Werfel. Based on the events at Musa Dagh in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, the book played a role in organizing the Jewish resistance under Nazi rule. It was passed from hand to hand in Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe, and it became an example and a symbol for the Jewish underground throughout Europe. The Holocaust scholars Samuel Totten, Paul Bartrop and Steven L. Jacobs underline the importance of the book for many of the ghettos' Jews: "The book was read by many Jews during World War II and was viewed as an allegory of their own situation in the Nazi-established ghettos, and what they might do about it."
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The Scent of Rain in the Balkans The Scent of Rain in the Balkans (Serbian: Мирис кише на Балкану, "Miris Kiše na Balkanu" ) is a historical novel written by Gordana Kuić. The novel was published in 1986, becoming an instant bestseller. It centers on the Salom family, most notably five sisters — Buka, Nina, Klara, Blanki and Riki. The novel was inspired by Kuić's mother Blanki Levi and her sisters. "The Scent of Rain in the Balkans" follows the destinies of, not only Jews, but also Serbs, Muslims and Catholics during two major historical events — World War I and World War II.
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Blood Red, Snow White Blood Red, Snow White is a historical novel by Marcus Sedgwick published in 2007. It is a novel of the Russian Revolution, a fictionalised account of the time the author Arthur Ransome spent in Russia. It was shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Children's Book Award.
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The Ancient Ship The Ancient Ship () is a Chinese novel by Zhang Wei, first published in 1987. The novel spans four decades of Chinese history beginning with the creation of the People's Republic in 1949, then difficult periods of land reform, as well as famine, the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward. It is the story of three generations, the Sui, Zhao and Li families who live through these difficult times. The novel is set in the fictional northern town of Wali which once had a thriving river and docks, but whose river shrank to the point of being unnavigable. The title refers to an ancient ship that is discovered buried in the floodplain adjacent to the city. A translation into English was published in 2008 by Harper Collins.
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Hannibal (Leckie novel) Hannibal is a 1995 historical novel by Scottish writer Ross Leckie. The book relates the exploits of Hannibal's invasion of Rome beginning in 218 BC, narrated by the Carthaginian general in his retirement. It was the first of the "Carthage" trilogy, covering the Punic Wars. The novel received mixed reviews, mainly due to the extreme violence occasionally described in the narrative.
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Skeletons at the Feast Skeletons at the Feast is a novel by author Chris Bohjalian, published in 2008. It is the story of a journey in the waning months of World War II concerning the Emmerich family, who flee their beloved home in Prussia and move west to avoid the advancing Russian troops. The family consists of one of the novel's main protagonists, Anna; her mother, known affectionately as "Mutti"; her father, Rolf; her twin brother, Helmut; her younger brother, Theo; and the Scottish POW that once worked on the family's farm, Callum Finella, who becomes Anna's lover. Anna also has an older brother, Werner, who is off fighting in the war. Rolf and Helmut leave the family to aid in stopping the Russian advance and the rest continue on alone; on their westward journey they are joined by Uri Singer, an escaped Jew posing as a Nazi officer. Bohjalian said in an interview he was inspired to write the story after being persuaded to read a diary spanning from 1920 to 1945 belonging to Eva Henatsch, a German woman that embarked on a similar journey west across the Third Reich.
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The Death of Virgil The Death of Virgil (German: Der Tod des Vergil ) is a 1945 novel by the Austrian author Hermann Broch. The narrative reenacts the last hours of life of the Roman poet Virgil, in the port of Brundisium (Brindisi), whence he had accompanied the emperor Augustus, his decision – frustrated by the emperor – to burn his "Aeneid", and his final reconciliation with his destiny. Virgil's heightened perceptions as he dies recall his life and the age in which he lives. The poet is in the interval between life and death, just as his culture hangs between the pagan and Christian eras. As he reflects, Virgil recognises that history is at a cusp and that he may have falsified reality in his attempt to create beauty.
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Crabwalk Crabwalk, published in Germany in 2002 as Im Krebsgang, is a novel by Danzig-born German author Günter Grass. As in earlier works, Grass concerns himself with the effects of the past on the present; he interweaves various strands and combines fact and fiction. While the murder of Wilhelm Gustloff by David Frankfurter and the sinking of the ship the "Wilhelm Gustloff" are real events, the fictional members of the Pokriefke family bring these events into our own time.
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The Judas Testament (novel) The Judas Testament is a 1994 novel by Daniel Easterman. The plot revolved around the discovery of an epistle in Moscow by a scholar of the Aramaic language, who becomes the unwitting pawn in a murderous struggle by various crypto-political forces to possess the scroll.
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Na krásné samotě Na krásné samotě is a Czech novel by František Bernard Vaněk. It was first published in 1938.
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Sand (Herrndorf novel) Sand is a 2011 novel by the German writer Wolfgang Herrndorf. It won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2012.
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Fire in the East (novel) Fire in the East is a historical novel in the Warrior of Rome Series by Harry Sidebottom, first published in 2008. It is the first novel in the series, focusing on the exploits of Marcus Clodius Ballista (a fictionalized version of Balista, or Callistus), a Roman military officer originally of the Germanic Angles, during the military and political Crisis of the Third Century.
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Mount &amp; Blade: With Fire &amp; Sword Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword is a stand-alone expansion for the action role-playing video game "Mount & Blade". The game is developed by Sich Studio and TaleWorlds and was published by Paradox Interactive in Europe. The game and its storyline is loosely based on the novel "With Fire and Sword" by Henryk Sienkiewicz, depicting Poland's 1648-51 war against Khmelnytsky Uprising in Ukraine, and its sequels dealing with the invasion of Poland by Sweden - then a major military power - and with Polish wars against the Ottoman Empire. While written long before video games were invented, Sienkiewicz's plot lines - involving sweeping grand sagas of heroic warfare - are readily adapted to the modern medium.
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Legacy of Cain The Legacy of Cain (German: "Das Vermächtnis Kains" ; sometimes translated as "Heritage of Cain") is an unfinished cycle of novellas by the 19th century Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. His original plan was to group various novellas into 6 volumes, each of which was titled according to its central theme; those are "Love", "Property", "State", "War", "Work", and "Death". Only the first two volumes, "Love" (1870) and "Property", (1877) were completed. By the middle of the 1880s, Masoch abandoned the grandiose idea of "The Legacy of Cain", although some of the novellas intended for the cycle had been published.
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Tourist Season (novel) Tourist Season is a 1986 novel by Carl Hiaasen. It was his first solo novel, after co-writing several mystery/thriller novels with William Montalbano.
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The Old New Land The Old New Land (German: "Altneuland" ; Hebrew: תֵּל־אָבִיב‎ "Tel Aviv", "Mound of spring") is a utopian novel published by Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, in 1902. Outlining Herzl's vision for a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, "Altneuland" became one of Zionism's establishing texts. It was translated into Yiddish by Israel Isidor Elyashev. It was translated into Hebrew by Nahum Sokolow as Tel Aviv, which led to the city of Tel Aviv, founded in 1909 which was to become a major Israeli city.
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The Road Back The Road Back (German: "Der Weg zurück" ) is a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque, commonly regarded as a sequel to his 1929 novel "All Quiet on the Western Front". It was first serialized in the German newspaper "Vossische Zeitung" between December 1930 and January 1931, and published in book form in April 1931.