You choose some obscure city or country, spend 300 pages making up its history, and then follow five or six generations of your hero's family.
There followed three generations of defeat and subjugation by the Caliphate.
Pedersen followed four generations throughout the 1900s, and the changes in the Norwegian daily rolled up through the experiences of people.
The series is a sweeping historical drama that follows three generations of one family on a kibbutz.
The story follows four generations of an Irish landholding family, the Rackrents.
The play follows three generations of black women fighting prejudice in 1930's South Carolina.
It follows three generations of the eccentric Dean family in Australia and the people who surround them.
This novel follows three generations of two black American families brought together when a battered wife seeks shelter at another woman's door.
I've followed two generations of owls who live on top of the carriage house.
The film follows six generations of females within one family, and their struggle for power and independence in America.
