By Sara Gruen. It's a historical book about circuses.

作者莎拉·格鲁恩，这是一部关于马戏团的历史小说。

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Dongshi Shu is a historical book that records how the Ming Dynasty managed Liaotung.

《东事书》是一部记述明代经营辽东的史籍。

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As recorded in a historical book of the sixth century, in ancient times, there lived a man named Huan Jing.

据六世纪时期的一本史书上记载，在古代，有个叫桓景的人。

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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.

NEWYORKER: Sons and Lovers

Lacking its predecessor's historical sweep, this book is not quite as impressive a feat of scholarship.

ECONOMIST: Investment management

However, the historical accuracy of the book is undeniable, whether the subject is Spain's 16th-century landscape, fertility treatments of the period or the legal and business details that the author, who studied law and business, so convincingly describes.

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