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A jester from 17th-century folklore wanders the scorched landscape of the Thirty Years' War, outliving kings and exposing their folly.
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The Tin Drum
A boy born with a scream that can shatter glass drums his way through the horrors of Nazi Germany, refusing to grow up in a world not worth being adult in.
Tree of Smoke
A CIA operative, a missionary, and a Vietnamese double agent move through the fog of the Vietnam War, where no one's motives are what they seem.
The Elephant's Journey
A sixteenth-century Portuguese king transports an elephant from Lisbon to Vienna, and the absurd journey becomes a parable about power, spectacle, and the dignity of beasts.
Candide
Candide, a naive young man taught that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds, is thrown out into a world of war, earthquake and cruelty that tests his optimism to destruction.
The Good Lord Bird
A young enslaved boy in 1850s Kansas Territory is freed by John Brown, mistaken for a girl, and spends years disguised in a dress as Brown's good-luck charm on the road to Harpers Ferry.
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Aleksandar, a boy in Višegrad who loves stories and his grandfather, flees to Germany with his family when the Bosnian war comes, and later goes back to look for a girl he once saved.
Hadji Murád
An Avar commander who has fought for the rebel imam Shamil defects to the Russians in 1851 to save his family, and finds himself trusted by neither side.
The March
Sherman's March to the Sea becomes a panoramic novel of the Civil War's end, seen through the eyes of soldiers, slaves, and civilians swept up in the destruction.
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.
Dog Years
The friendship of Walter Matern and Eddi Amsel, two boys from a village near Danzig, from the 1920s through the Nazi years and after, told by three narrators and shadowed by a line of black dogs.
Group Portrait with Lady
A researcher pieces together, from interviews with everyone who knew her, the life of Leni Pfeiffer, a Cologne woman who fell in love with a Soviet prisoner of war during the Second World War.
The White Guard
In Kyiv in the winter of 1918, the Turbin family, siblings loyal to the old order, try to hold on to their home and each other as the city changes hands in the Russian Civil War.