He is writing a historical novel about nineteenth-century France.

他正在写一部关于19世纪的法国的历史小说。

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Why write a novel set in the future when your credentials are perfect for a historical novel?

既然您的资历很适合写历史小说，为什么还要写一部设定在未来的小说呢？

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"But it's a historical novel, based on historical facts!"

“可那是历史小说，根据历史事实写的！”

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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.

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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.

BBC: Hilary Mantel wins 2012 Costa novel prize

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.

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