Family Saga Article Index for
Family
Website Links For
Family
 

Information About

Family Saga




The family saga is a genre of Literature which chronicles the lives and doings of a family or a number of related or interconnected families over a period of time. In novels (or sometimes Sequences Of Novels ) with a serious intent, this is often a thematic device used to portray particular historical events, changes of social circumstances, or the ebb and flow of fortunes from a multiple of perspectives.

The typical family saga follows generations of a family through a period of history in a series of novels. A number of sub-genres of the form exist such as the AGA Saga .

Successful writers of popular family sagas include Susan Howatch , R. F. Delderfield and Philippa Carr .

Examples of family sagas of literary note include:





SEE ALSO