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The 18th-century Polish-Jewish mystic Jacob Frank founds a movement that carries his followers across the borders of empire and faith.
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The War of the End of the World
In the backlands of northeastern Brazil in the 1890s, a preacher known as the Counsellor gathers thousands of the poor at Canudos, and the new republic sends its army against them.
The Family Moskat
The wealthy Moskat family of Warsaw and its old patriarch Meshulam, from the turn of the century to the German bombardment of 1939.
Satan in Goray
In the town of Goray, rebuilt after the massacres of 1648, the news that the messiah Sabbatai Zevi has come drives the community into a frenzy.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
A Dutch clerk in early 1800s Japan navigates trade, love, and betrayal on the artificial island of Dejima, where two civilisations meet and misunderstand each other.
War and Peace
Five aristocratic families navigate love, ambition, and survival as Napoleon's invasion of Russia reshapes the world around them.
Primeval and Other Times
The village of Primeval, guarded at its four borders by archangels, lives through the twentieth century, from the First World War into the 1980s, as its people and its spirits keep their own time.
Only Yesterday
Isaac Kumer, a young idealist from Galicia, arrives in Ottoman Palestine in the early 1900s to work the land and ends up a house painter caught between secular Jaffa and religious Jerusalem.
Jerusalem
A revival movement splits a farming parish in Dalarna, and a group of villagers sells their ancestral farms to follow its preacher to a religious colony in Jerusalem.
The Bridge on the Drina
The stone bridge over the Drina at Višegrad, built by a grand vizier in the 1570s, and the Muslims, Christians and Jews of the town who live around it over four centuries until the First World War.
Death and the Dervish
Ahmed Nurudin, sheikh of a dervish lodge in Ottoman Sarajevo, begins to question everything when his brother is arrested and he cannot find out why.
My Name Is Red
In Istanbul in 1591, the sultan has secretly commissioned an illuminated book in the European style, and one of the miniaturists working on it is murdered.
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.