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Jino, a laid-off factory worker staging a sit-in on top of a factory chimney, remembers four generations of his family of railway workers, from Japanese colonial rule through war and dictatorship to modern Korea.
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Raised from the Ground
The peasants of a Portuguese estate endure a century of feudal oppression, and Saramago gives voice to the people history usually ignores.
Pachinko
Four generations of a Korean family build lives in Japan, enduring discrimination and sacrifice, connected by stubbornness and the pachinko parlours that sustain them.
The Eighth Life
Six generations of a Georgian family unfold across a century of Soviet violence, chocolate, and love, addressed by a great-aunt to her niece.
Fall of Giants
On the day of George V's coronation in 1911, thirteen-year-old Billy Williams goes down a Welsh coal mine for the first time, and his family's story winds with those of an English earl, a German diplomat, two Russian brothers and an American idealist through the First World War and the Russian Revolution.
Segu
In the late eighteenth century, the family of Dousika Traore, a nobleman of the Bambara kingdom of Segu in what is now Mali, is scattered by Islam, the slave trade and colonialism.
The House of the Spirits
Four generations of the Trueba family across a thinly-veiled twentieth-century Chile, from a telepathic grandmother to the military coup that takes her granddaughter into a basement.
Cloudstreet
After the war, two working-class families, the Pickles and the Lambs, each struck by disaster, end up sharing a big rundown house on Cloud Street in Perth, for twenty years.
The Woman from Tantoura
A Palestinian woman narrates her life from the 1948 Nakba through decades of displacement.
The Emigrants
In 1850 a group of poor Swedish farmers and outcasts from Småland sell what they own and cross the Atlantic towards the promise of Minnesota land.
Growth of the Soil
Isak, a huge, silent man, walks into the empty Norwegian uplands and clears a farm from nothing, and a woman with a harelip comes to live with him.
Centennial
The history of a fictional Colorado town from prehistoric times through the twentieth century, told through its land and its people.
The Good Earth
A Chinese peasant marries an unloved kitchen slave, and across forty years of drought, revolution, and unexpected wealth they rise and the land goes on telling them what they are.