A saga novel is a genre encompassing the wide scopes of stories and narratives such as religious saga, national saga, family saga, or human saga.
History
The saga novel as a genre originates from the Icelandic history of family sagas
Examples A major example of a saga novel in English literature is George Eliot's Middlemarch. In Russia, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is a representative saga novel. In Korea, Kyunglee Park's Lands (Toji) is another example. In the United States, Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth and Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind belong to the category of saga novels. In China, Luo Guanzhong (Lo Kuanchung)'s Sanguo zhi yanyi (Sankuo chi yen-i; Romance of the Three Kingdoms) is the most representative and well-known saga novel since the 14th century. +Examples of Saga NovelsTitleAuthorYearCulture/Nation/CategoryBuddenbrooks Thomas Mann1901 Germany East of Eden John Steinbeck1952 US One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez1967 Colombia The Patternist SeriesOctavia E. Butler1976USRootsAlex Haley1976 US Hanta YoRuth Beebe Hill1979USChesapeake James A. Michener1978 US The House of the SpiritsIsabel Allende1982 Chile WaterlilyElla C. Deloria1988USThe Inheritance TrilogyN. K. Jemisin2010USBarkskinsAnnie Proulx2016Canada/US HomegoingYaa Gyasi2016Ghana/US PachinkoMin Jin Lee2017Korea/Japan A Woman is No Man Etaf Rum2019Arab/US The Old Drift Namwali Serpell 2019Zambia The Yellow House Sarah M Broom 2019New Orleans
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