One of the novel’s characteristics is in fact the continuous time shift from the present to the past: the writer doesn’t linger on today’s situation in contrast to the space dedicated to the scenery of the Roosevelt administration’s years.
Alizée Benoit and Danielle Abrams are the novels’s protagonists and their intertwined lives give a structure to the story, while the American historical period that marked the passage from the Great Depression to the Second World War, or the background of Christie’s house of auctions, provide the setting. Shapiro debuted in the note appendix to her latest novel The muralist, released in Italy as The artist, and by reading from this angle we took the best that this narrative wanted to offer.
The most important word in this definition for me is “fiction». «A historical novel is a work of fiction set in the past.
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