It was Roth's genius to put a universal theme into a historical novel that retains all its power in our own not-so-post-imperial age.
Her historical novel, Bring Up The Bodies, is up against 19 other titles including six debuts and two previous winners in the long list.
It is Hilary Mantel's second award for Bring Up The Bodies, a historical novel about Thomas Cromwell, which also won the 2012 Man Booker Prize.
Gen LaGreca is the author of the award-winning medical thriller, Noble Vision, and of the forthcoming historical novel, A Dream of Daring, which explores the great power struggle and clashing visions for the future in mid-19th century America.
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These historic events form the background to this short, arresting historical novel, written almost as a prose poem, which recounts the Dome's construction from the viewpoint of one of the Caliph's advisers, who is of Jewish origin but has adopted the new Muslim creed.
In that novel, the eighties were not merely a discrete historical period and so the book was not a historical novel because the fictional material (love of money, excess of all kinds, fashionable drug abuse, political opportunism, the scythe of AIDS) so easily spilled beyond its temporal borders.
This historical adventure novel captures the sweep of human nature in a world that we'll never see again.
The conference will explore the original historical context of the novel, as well as the numerous screen adaptations and literary spin-offs the book has inspired.
Mr Segev is weaker when he ventures to make bigger historical judgments, such as the novel claim that it was the Arab revolt before the second world war, rather than that of the more powerful and more desperate Jews after it, which made Britain give up on Palestine.
Many readers have recommended Michael Shaara's Pulitzer-Prize-winning "The Killer Angels" as a novel that superbly translates a historical event into fiction.
As a decorative object, it is a testament to Lycett's ability to synthesize a novel form from a variety of historical and then-contemporary influences.
One of the reasons for this literary success is that Mantel seems to have written a very good modern novel, then changed all her fictional names to English historical figures of the fifteen-twenties and thirties.
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