Books from Lithuania
25 popular lithuanian books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Lithuania.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Manke Fisjke by Mendele Moicher Sforim NL
Description:
Twee door het 19e-eeuwse Oost-Europa rondtrekkende jiddische boekverkopers ontmoeten een manke bedelaar, die veel beleefd heeft.
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Memoirs of a Life Cut Short by Ricardas Gavelis EN
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Levas Ciparis, the anti-hero of this masterly critique of life in the late Soviet Union, is a man alone and he desperately wants to belong. He is obstructed in this quest by his own innocence and decency, which occasionally cause him to act with absurd inflexibility. In fact, the irresolvable tension between moral probity and necessary compromise is one of the many themes of this novel: "Yes, I truly did believe, being an honest, sufficiently pure and persistent person, that if I took up the work of the Komsomol, I would most certainly be capable of changing and enriching that community." In p... continue
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No Men, No Cry by Ugnė Barauskaitė, Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė, Jurga Ivanauskaitė EN
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This series of anthologies is a means of introducing the latest works of Lithuanian literature to an English-speaking readership. The women’s writings presented in this collection recreate the experience of contemporary woman, experience that is closely related to actual cultural and historical phenomena and which contemplates a woman’s search for identity and highlights a woman’s ironic stance towards traditional female values, such as marriage, childbirth and home-making. Reading the latest women’s writings, we can see that the older woman is dying out and is making room for a new woman, one... continue
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Peces y dragones by Undiné Radzevičiūtė ES
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Un jesuita italiano, pintor para más señas, en la corte imperial china del siglo XVIII, enfrentado a los retos de la evangelización, de su oficio artístico y de la pérdida de su propia fe. Y cuatro mujeres, cuatro vendavales residentes en Vilna en la actualidad, cuatro generaciones mal avenidas de una familia tan singular como característica del alma báltica, componiendo el retablo tragicómico de su insatisfacción. Dos relatos paralelos para abordar los mismo temas: el abismo insalvable entre culturas antagónicas, el v&eacut... continue
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Shadows on the Tundra by Dalia Grinkevičiūtė EN
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In 1941, 14-year-old Dalia and her family are deported from their native Lithuania to a labour camp in Siberia. As the strongest member of her family she submits to twelve hours a day of manual labour. At the age of 21, she escapes the gulag and returns to Lithuania. She writes her memories on scraps of paper and buries them in the garden, fearing they might be discovered by the KGB. They are not found until 1991, four years after her death. This is the story Dalia buried. The immediacy of her writing bears witness not only to the suffering she endured but also the hope that sustained her. It ... continue
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Shadows on the Tundra by Dalia Grinkevičiūtė EN
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An extraordinary piece of international survival literature, joining the likes of Primo Levi and Anne Frank. In 1941, 14-year-old Dalia and her family are deported from their native Lithuania to a labour camp in Siberia. As the strongest member of her family she submits to twelve hours a day of manual labour. At the age of 21, she escapes the gulag and returns to Lithuania. She writes her memories on scraps of paper and buries them in the garden, fearing they might be discovered by the KGB. They are not found until 1991, four years after her death. This is the story Dalia buried. The immediacy... continue
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Siberian Haiku by Jurga Vile EN
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One morning in June 1941, a quiet village in Central Lithuania is shaken out of its slumber by the sudden arrival of the Soviet Army. Eight-year-old Algiukas awakes to the sound of Russian soldiers pounding on the door. His family are given ten minutes to pack up their things. They are not told where they're going or for how long. An airless freight train carries them from the fertile lands of rural Lithuania to the snowy plains of the Siberian taiga. There, in the distant, dismal North, they begin a life marked by endless hunger and unrelenting cold. And yet the darkness of exile is lightened... continue
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The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz EN
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The Captive Mind examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right.
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The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig EN
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War. The true story of a young girl's incredible war-time years in exile in Siberia, told without bitterness and set down in a remarkably compelling and wholly unforgettable narrative.
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New York Times Notable Book 2018 Romain Gary's bittersweet final masterpiece, a novel of courage and resistance--never before in English