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At the end of the seventeenth century, under Danish rule, Jón Hreggviðsson, a poor farmer accused of killing the king's hangman, wanders Iceland and Europe while a scholar collects the country's ancient manuscripts.
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Bosnian Chronicle
In 1807 a French consul arrives in Travnik, the remote seat of the Ottoman vizier of Bosnia, followed by an Austrian rival, and both spend years trying to make sense of the place.
Salka Valka
Salka Valka arrives as a little girl with her destitute mother in an Icelandic fishing village, where she grows up tough, poor and in thrall to the merchant who owns everything.
Independent People
An Icelandic sheep farmer who worked for years to own his own land refuses to bend to anyone, and his family pays for his fierce independence across decades of hardship.
Omer Pasha Latas
In 1850 Omer Pasha Latas, a Serb convert who has risen to Ottoman general, rides into Sarajevo to crush the rebellious Bosnian beys, and the city waits to see what he will do.
The Fall of the King
In sixteenth-century Denmark, Mikkel Thøgersen, a restless student, is drawn into the service of King Christian II, and into the wars, cruelties and decline of his reign.
Noli Me Tángere
Crisostomo Ibarra comes home to Manila after seven years studying in Europe to find that his father has died in prison, and that the friars of his town are set against him.
Troubles
In 1919, Major Brendan Archer, shaken by the war, arrives at a crumbling hotel on the Irish coast to see the fiancée he barely remembers, and watches the building, and the empire, fall apart around him.
The Home and the World
During the Swadeshi movement in Bengal, Bimala, the wife of a liberal landowner, steps out of the women's quarters and falls under the spell of his charismatic friend Sandip, a nationalist leader.
With Fire and Sword
In 1647, as the Cossack rising of Bohdan Khmelnytsky breaks over the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the young knight Jan Skrzetuski falls for Helena and has to fight his way across a burning Ukraine to keep her.
The Charterhouse of Parma
Fabrice del Dongo, a young Italian nobleman, runs off to fight for Napoleon at Waterloo, then makes his way through the court intrigues of Parma, love affairs and a famous imprisonment.
Cities of Salt
In a desert oasis in an unnamed Gulf kingdom in the 1930s, Americans arrive looking for oil, and the oasis, its people and their way of life are swept away.
This Earth of Mankind
Minke, a brilliant young Javanese student at a Dutch school in colonial Surabaya in the 1890s, falls for Annelies, daughter of Nyai Ontosoroh, the formidable concubine of a Dutch planter.