Books like The Slave
After the Cossack massacres of 1648, Jacob, a learned young Jew, is sold as a slave to a peasant in a Polish mountain village and falls in love with his master's daughter, Wanda.
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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 Magician of Lublin
Yasha Mazur, a Jewish magician and acrobat in 1870s Poland with a pious wife in Lublin and lovers along the road, plans a burglary to win a widow in Warsaw.
Strait Is the Gate
Jérôme loves his cousin Alissa from childhood, and she loves him, but her piety and her conviction that love must reach for something higher keep pushing him away.
Elias Portolu
Elias Portolu comes home to his Sardinian village after prison on the mainland and falls in love with Maddalena, the girl his brother is about to marry.
The Axe
In thirteenth-century Norway, Olav Audunssøn and Ingunn, raised together and betrothed as children, give in to each other before the marriage is settled, and blood is shed over it.
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.
A Simple Story
In a small Galician town at the turn of the century, Hirshl, the son of a prosperous shopkeeper, falls for his poor orphaned cousin Blume, who works as a servant in his parents' house.
Synnøve Solbakken
In a Norwegian mountain valley, Thorbjørn, a quarrelsome farmer's son, loves Synnøve, the gentle girl of the neighbouring farm, but her pious parents won't hear of a match until he learns to master his temper.
The Heretic of Soana
A young priest in the mountains above Lake Lugano is sent to deal with a family of outcasts living in sin on the slopes of Monte Generoso, and is undone by the eldest daughter.
Iceland's Bell
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.
The Knights of the Cross
Around 1400, the young Polish knight Zbyszko of Bogdaniec vows to win three peacock plumes from the helmets of the Teutonic Knights for Danusia, and his oath draws him into the long war with the Order.
Silence
In the seventeenth century, a young Portuguese Jesuit, Sebastiao Rodrigues, is smuggled into Japan, where Christianity is outlawed, to find his former teacher, who is rumoured to have renounced his faith under torture.