Looking for books like The Songmaster (epic SF melodramas)

I am looking for books like the „Songmaster”by Orson Card, or if you dont know this one like „the good earth” or „gone with the wind”. I dont know what this genere is called but besically the whole life or big chunk of life of one person to whom a lot of things happen. I dont mean exactly space operas because they often go deep into politics and I want melodrama. Bonus points if the book feels like written under influence similar to the Songmaster.