Tag: Historical Fiction

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Japan

Cover of How Do You Live featuring an illustration of four young men in uniform walking together down a residential street with a starry night above and a cat in the foreground.

How Do You Live?

Genzaburō Yoshino

Bruno Navasky (Translator)

How Do You Live? Genzaburō Yoshino. Translated by Bruno Navasky. Foreword by Neil Gaiman. Algonquin Young Readers, 2021. This version originally published as 君たちはどう生きるか (Kimitachi wa dō ikiru ka) in Japanese by Iwanami Shoten Publishers, in Tokyo, in 1982; first published in Japan in 1937. ISBN 9781616209773. 288 p. (Ages 10 and up). Fiction.

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Cover for Soul Lanterns featuring an illustration of a woman at night with dark hair in a short bob haircut and bangs in a blue kimono looking at the viewer from over her shoulder while holding a paper lantern in her hands. In the background is a cityscape with stars in the night sky. The book's title is displayed in a glowing purple, pink, yellow, and orange as if illuminated by the paper lantern.

Soul Lanterns

Shaw Kuzki

Emily Balistrieri (Translator)

Soul Lanterns. Shaw Kuzki. Translated by Emily Balistrieri. Delacorte Press, 2021. Originally published as 光のうつしえ 廣島 ヒロシマ 広島 (Hikari no utsushie Hiroshima Hiroshima Hiroshima) in Japanese by Kodansha, Ltd., in Tokyo, in 2013. ISBN 9780593174357. 176 p. (Ages 10-14). Fiction.

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China & Taiwan

China
Cover of Bronze and Sunflower featuring an illustration of two kids, a boy and a girl, riding on the back of a water buffalo who is wading through a rice paddy. In the background is a rural landscape, houses, mountains, and birds.

Bronze and Sunflower

Cao Wenxuan

Helen Wang (Translator)

Meilo So (Illustrator)

Bronze and Sunflower. Cao Wenxuan. Translated by Helen Wang. Illustrated by Meilo So. Candlewick, 2017. Originally published by Phoenix Juvenile and Children’s Publishing in China, and then released by Candlewick sister company Walker Books in the UK in 2015. ISBN 9780763688165. 400 p. (Ages 9-12.) Fiction.

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Cover of Dragonfly Eyes featuring an illustration of tree branches with red flowers in the foreground and a building inn the background in blue. The title is in large purple letters within a lighter purple cloud.

Dragonfly Eyes

Cao Wenxuan

Helen Wang (Translator)

Dragonfly Eyes. Cao Wenxuan. Translated by Helen Wang. Candlewick, 2022. Originally published in China by by Phoenix Juvenile and Children’s Publishing and then released by Candlewick sister company Walker Books in the UK in 2021. ISBN 9781536200188. 384 p. (Ages 9-12.) Fiction.

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The Middle East & North Africa

Israel
Cover of Adam and Thomas featuring a stylistic illustration of a forest with pink flourishes outlining trees and leaves. The title on the cover is presented in a frame lined with sticks and the lettering itself is comprised of those same sticks.

Adam & Thomas

Aharon Appelfeld

Jeffrey M. Green (Translator)

Philippe Dumas (Illustrator)

Adam & Thomas. Aharon Appelfeld. Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. Illustrated by Philippe Dumas. Seven Stories Press, 2015. Originally published as Yalda Shelo Minhaolam Hazé (A Girl from Another World) in Hebrew by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir, in Modi’in, Israel, in 2013. ISBN 9781609806347. 149 p. (Ages 10 and up). Fiction.

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Latin America

Venezuela
Cover for Different: A Story of the Spanish Civil War featuring an illustration of a young girl in a school unfirom with a bucket at her feet appearing to be cleaning a chalkboard. There is a yellow border along the left side of the cover and the title appears to be written in chalk.

Different: A Story of the Spanish Civil War

Mónica Montañés

Lawrence Schimel

Eva Sánchez Gómez (Illustrator)

Different: A Story of the Spanish Civil War. Mónica Montañés. Translated by Lawrence Schimel. Illustrated by Eva Sánchez Gómez. Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2022. Originally published as Los distintos by Ediciones Ekaré in Barcelona, Spain, in 2020. ISBN 9780802855985. 88 p. (Ages 9-14). Fiction.

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