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Marjane Satrapi · 2007

Genre: Graphic novel Memoir Historical fiction
Feels: Unflinching Bittersweet Contemplative

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Atonement

Ian McEwan · 2001

Its own thing

Prose worth underlining

Classics Historical fiction Literary Bittersweet Contemplative Haunting Lyrical

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Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry · 1995

Its own thing

It tells it straight

Literary Historical fiction Unflinching Bittersweet Tender Melancholic

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Quiet American

Graham Greene · 1955

Why it fits

Just as unflinching and bittersweet , but more tense and atmospheric

Literary Historical fiction Bittersweet Contemplative Atmospheric Tense

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East of Eden

John Steinbeck · 1952

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The same unflinching and bittersweet , turned more haunting and epic

Classics Literary Historical fiction Bittersweet Contemplative Epic Haunting

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The Secret Scripture

Sebastian Barry · 2008

Its own thing

It leaves something behind

Literary Historical fiction Bittersweet Contemplative Melancholic Tender

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North and South (1854). By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · 1855

Its own thing

Tender, with a sting

Classics Historical fiction Romance Bittersweet Contemplative Tender Atmospheric

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