Historical Fiction

Taipei, February 28, 1947: As an uprising rocks Taiwan, a young doctor is taken from his newborn daughter by Chinese Nationalists, on charges of sp...

A Greek woman tells of how she willed herself out of her father's cloistered house, married an Irish officer in the British Army, and came to Irela...

Locke, California, 1928. Three bedraggled Chinese women appear out of the mist in a small Chinese farming town on the Sacramento River. Two are unk...

Chinua Achebe is considered the father of modern African literature, the writer who “opened the magic casements of African fiction.” The African Tr...

Widely considered today's preeminent Vietnamese novelist, Duong Thu Huong has won acclaim for her exceptional lyricism and psychological acumen, as...

On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, h...