Political Historical Fiction

Deportado cinco veces por cuatro presidentes peruanos, sospechoso de haber estado involucrado en tres golpes de estado en el Perú y uno en el extranjero, Eudocio Ravines, figura ácida y rutilante en la historia latinoamericana del siglo XX, aparece por doquiera que uno escarbe, conspirando, denunciando, polemizando, escaldando y sacando de quicio. Después de una relación estrecha y dramática con Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre y José Carlos Mariátegui, abandona sus roles de comisario político de alto nivel en la Internacional Comunista para combatir la ideología que antes defendía férreamente.

Esta novela narra el ascenso y la caída de Santos Rodríguez, un influyente asesor político que luego de acompañar a distintos presidentes aspira él mismo a convertirse en gobernante de una República jamás nombrada, pero que se parece mucho al México de mediados del siglo XX. Dotado de un gran carisma y copiosas arcas, y amparado en su buena fortuna, Santos Rodríguez buscarácumplir su sueño a toda costa. Pero nada es tan sencillo en un país donde la lucha por el poder ocurre en el terreno de la miseria moral.

Slaughtering Girl is the story of a woman who knows how to use a cleaver. It’s a tale of passion, politics, love, and revolution set during a tumultuous period of Chinese history.

Podría decirse también que se trata, al fin, de la esperada novela del peronismo, aunque desfilan por estas páginas casi todos los funcionarios y empresarios importantes de los últimos setenta años. Sin dudas, este es su libro más polémico, porque las escenas íntimas que narra Asís, por primera vez, permiten correr el velo del relato político y periodístico, para iluminarnos con las verdaderas razones que hubo detrás de los hechos más destacados de nuestra historia reciente.

Matschuchy, Ukraine, 1933: Die junge Jawdocha versucht verzweifelt, sich und ihre Familie am Leben zu halten – doch der Hunger setzt nicht nur ihren Körpern zu, sondern immer mehr Menschen in ihrer unmittelbaren Umgebung greifen zu verzweifelten, unmenschlichen Maßnahmen im Kampf um das nackte Überleben.

Sabina kommt aus Russland nach Zürich, um sich in der psychiatrischen Klinik von Dr. C.G. Jung behandeln zu lassen. Und wird seine Geliebte. Fritz, der Sohn eines Schreiners, träumt von einer besseren Gesellschaft, bringt die Schweiz an den Rand einer Revolution und rettet Lenin in Russland das Leben. Beide sind sie mutig, widersprüchlich, zerrissen, betreten unaufhörlich Neuland. Ihre Schicksale kreuzen, spiegeln sich - und verlieren sich im Dunkel der europäischen Geschichte.

Córdoba, 1009. El pueblo de la que entonces era la capital del mundo se levantó en armas contra la tiranía de los hijos de Almanzor, respaldada por mercenarios e integristas. Dicha rebelión no fue fruto de un malestar súbito, sino el corolario de un movimiento planificado y gestado en la clandestinidad por una suerte de asamblea o consejo. Aquella revolución vertebraría en el plano político la sociedad, dando lugar a la creación de un ejército propio e integrándose en el gobierno naciente.

In 1893, financial panic imperils the settlement homesteaded by Abraham and Elizabeth Byers. Abraham, a preacher and self-proclaimed man of the people, rails against greed and corruption and launches Hiawatha Colony, a product-sharing community designed to support its members through self-sufficiency. But can this cooperative community withstand internal strife, the harsh wilds of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and the antagonism of the outside world? When discord rocks the community, Abraham must choose between dissolving the colony and compromising the ideals that elevated him.

The 1968 Tet uprising plunges America deeper into the abyss of Vietnam. Martin Luther King is shot, and riots rage in 130 burning American cities. Students protesting the War take over American universities, and street battles in Paris nearly topple the French government. Senator Eugene McCarthy enters the Democratic presidential race against Lyndon Johnson, followed by Bobby Kennedy, who goes on to win the California Democratic primary.

Travin es un joven judío apasionado de la política comunista y admirador de la Unión Soviética. Junto a su madre y su hermana, viajan a Córdoba, Argentina, para pasar el verano. Ahí, con un país dividido por las fuerzas armadas, Travin queda fascinado con la presencia de un grupo social totalmente diferente al suyo. Bajo una identidad falsa, la vida de Travin se desdoblará.

Summer on Fire: A Detroit Novel is set in the Motor City during the hot summer of 1967. Its characters are thrust into tumultuous episodes of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, anti-war demonstrations, rock and roll at the Grande Ballroom, drugs, anarchism, the White Panther Party, Wilhelm Reich, and a bomb plot that an editor of the Metro Times wrote, provides “a people’s history and radical folklore of Detroit”. The setting is seven weeks in a critical year that demanded ethical choices by all involved, ones which mirror today’s crises.

Elizabeth Macquarie, widow of the disgraced former Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, is in mourning—not only for her husband, but the loss of their shared dream to transform the penal colony into a bright new world. Over the course of one long sleepless night on the windswept isle of Mull, she remembers her life in that wild and strange country; a revolution of ideas as dramatic as any in history; and her dangerous alliance with the brilliant, mercurial Francis Greenway, the colony's maverick architect.

Roma, primavera 1501. Salaì, apprendista pittore, scapestrato e sciupafemmine, scrive a un ignoto destinatario lo sgrammaticato resoconto del suo viaggio nell'Urbe. Il giovane è arrivato da Firenze al seguito del patrigno, un vecchio frustrato e squattrinato dalla testa zeppa di strane invenzioni che non funzionano mai: Leonardo da Vinci. Ufficialmente Leonardo è venuto nella Città Santa per studiare dal vivo l'antica architettura romana. In realtà è stato chiamato per un'indagine delicatissima: dovrà scoprire chi sta spargendo voci calunniose e infamanti sul pontefice.

Giugno 1981: a Vermicino il piccolo Alfredo Rampi è incastrato in un pozzo artesiano. Diciotto ore di diretta televisiva raccontano la sua fine e lo trasformano in un'icona mediatica - Alfredino. L'Italia non lo dimenticherà più. È l'alba di una nuova nazione, pronta a varare il suo decennio più patinato e contraddittorio, gli anni Ottanta. Percossi dalla Storia che stravolgerà l'Italia stessa e il mondo - la P2, la caduta del Muro, Tangentopoli, le guerre di Bush, la crisi - si muovono i protagonisti di questo libro.

Watergate could have turned out quite differently. In this novel, it does. The story is told by a fictitious White House official who becomes entangled in a web of bribery, blackmail, arson, and espionage. He conspicuously fails to follow his own good advice: Don’t do anything you wouldn’t want to see on the front page of the Washington Post.

In 1902, a young girl watches her family's life destroyed by corrupt officials and inscrutable natives. In 1954, the wife of the American ambassador becomes trapped in the intrigue of a Cold War love affair. In 1983, an evangelical missionary discovers that the Good News may not be good news at all to the Mayan refugees she hopes to save. And in 1999, the mother of an adopted Mayan daughter embarks on a roots tour only to find that the history she seeks is not safely in the past.

What Alex, illegitimate daughter of an alcoholic novelist and an artist, has always wanted is family. At 15, she falls in love with a 27-year-old photographer, whom she will leave when she comes under the spell of Ted Neal, a charismatic activist on his way to Mississippi for 1964’s Freedom Summer. That fall, Ted organizes a collective that turns to the growing antiwar movement.

The Autocrat is the story of Jenny Harriman, a 10th-grade teacher who inherits her uncle's estate after he dies. She discovers that he was not the person she knew while growing up and decides to find out his real identity. One of the featured characters is her son-in-law, Stephen, a Secret Service agent tasked with protecting the First Lady of the US.

When Hani, an Egyptian diplomat under Akhenaten, is sent to investigate the murder of a useful bandit leader in Syria, he encounters corruption, tangled relationships, and yet more murder. His investigation is complicated by the new king’s religious reforms, which have struck Hani’s own family to the core.

From author James Cloud comes the classic and powerful epic adventure that captures the gorgeous intensity of life in Germany during the early 20th century. It is the extraordinary saga of people who lived there during exciting and dangerous times. It is a tale of love and danger, of unthinkable loss - a stunning and vivid portrayal of people divided by class, faith, and prejudice - an expert sensational story that unveils the face of a majestic city.