Books like Of Love and Shadows
12 books with a reading profile close to Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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The Invisible Bridge
history, romance
Set in 1937, the story follows Andras Lévi, a Jewish Hungarian architecture student who travels from Budapest to Paris on a scholarship.
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2
Memoirs of a Geisha
history, romance
Sold by her father in the 1930s, nine-year-old Chiyo enters an okiya in Kyoto’s Gion district to work as a servant.
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3
Homeseeking
by Karissa Chen
history, romance
The story follows Mei-hua and her family as they navigate the shifting borders and political upheavals of twentieth-century East Asia.
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4
Only the Beautiful
history, romance
This novel follows two women connected by blood and tragedy during the mid-twentieth century.
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5
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie
history, narrative
Set during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the narrative follows two city-bred teenagers, Luo and the unnamed narrator, who are sent to a remote mountain village for forced Maoist re-education.
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Dominicana
by Angie Cruz
history, narrative
Ana Cancion is fifteen when she marries Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, in the Dominican Republic in 1965, so that her family can eventually emigrate.
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
by Lisa See
history, narrative
Li-yan belongs to the Akha people, an ethnic minority living in a remote mountain village in Yunnan, China, where life centers on harvesting puer tea.
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8
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
history, romance
Set on the Greek island of Cephalonia during World War II, the narrative follows Pelagia, a strong-willed village woman, and her father, the local physician Dr.
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
history, narrative
On New Year's Eve in 1984, eighty-five-year-old Lillian Boxfish sets out for a walk around Manhattan.
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Skeletons at the Feast
history, narrative
In January 1945, as the Red Army advances toward East Prussia, the Emmerich family, who run an estate, decide to flee west.
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Cane River
history, narrative
Lalita Tademy traced her own family history to write this novel, which follows four generations of women of colour in Louisiana's Cane River region, from slavery through Reconstruction.
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The German Girl
history, narrative
In 1939 Berlin, twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal and her family board the SS St.
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