Címke: historical fiction

  • Hungary’s Wealthiest Orphan, the Countess

    Hungary’s Wealthiest Orphan, the Countess

    Hungarian Historical Curiositiy content ahead! I’ve been struggling whether I should make English content about books that are not available in English (or any other language), only in Hungarian. I wish it were, but Hungary is a small Central-European country, the Hungarian language is tough to learn and even tougher to use it, so chances…

  • The Women

    The Women

    Some call her work a masterpiece of historical fiction; others dismiss it as “trauma porn.” Is her latest bestseller, The Women, a powerful tribute to the forgotten nurses of Vietnam or just a high-stakes soap opera? Reading the criticism about Kristin Hannah’s books, I can see that she produces divisive work: some like her novels…