Books by Sarah Winman
“Florence is so fantastically painted in this novel. It’s about a soldier named Ulysses. Towards the end of World War Two, there’s bombing going on, and he’s hiding in a cellar in Tuscany and meets an older woman named Evelyn, who’s an art historian. She’s there to check some paintings and they spend an evening together. She tells him all about the art that’s in Florence. He’s never really thought much about art, but what she says sticks with him.” Read more...
Historical Novels Set in Italy
Tracy Chevalier, Historical Novelist
Interviews where books by Sarah Winman were recommended
Historical Novels Set in Italy, recommended by Tracy Chevalier
Historical novels are at their most compelling when they get the details of daily life in the past right, argues bestselling author Tracy Chevalier. She picks five of her favorite historical novels set in Italy, from 16th-century Florence to 1950s Naples, with a couple of stops in Venice, where her own latest novel, The Glassmaker, is set.
