12 novels set during key historical events

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A Brief History of Seven Killings

Marlon James

Set against the backdrop of 1970s reggae culture, disco, sex and excess comes this remarkable re-imagining of the attempted assassination of Bob Marley.

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Summertime

Vanessa LaFaye

Tensions simmer as a small town, already divided by race, is torn apart by the deadliest of hurricanes … THE HELP meets TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD in this powerfully emotional…

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer

In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key… The key belonged to his father, he’s sure of…

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The Burning Elephant

Christopher Raja

The Burning Elephant is set in Kolkata before and after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, which led to widespread violence against India’s Sikh population. The novel is told from the…

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Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘March’ and ‘People of the Book’. A young woman’s struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when…

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