Popular European Adult Books
Find adult books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (210)
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Iemand moest het doen by Sanne Huysmans NL
BelgiumDescription:
Terwijl de vooruitgang onverbiddelijk binnendringt, verkommert de kapel bij de ingang van het dorp, droomt een dochter van de verre stad, zet een oude notelaar zich schrap en probeert een gepensioneerde vuilnisman de wereld een beetje beter te maken. Met haar bewierookte stijl zet Sanne Huysmans een wereld neer die verontrustend bekend voorkomt. 00'Iemand moest het doen' is een urgente roman over de noodzaak van dienstbaarheid en de tragiek van verwachtingen, en vooral een portret van een gemeenschap die vasthoudt aan de waarden die ze dreigt te verliezen.000Sanne Huysmans (1988) studeerde pol... continue
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino EN
ItalyDescription:
Italo Calvino's classic, multifaceted novel about writing and readers.
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In the Blink of an Eye : A Novel by Jo Callaghan EN
EnglandDescription:
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER • Two detectives: one human, one AI. And a case that will test them both. “Wildly original, heartfelt, funny, and properly thrilling, this is the kind of fresh and fearless debut I just adore.”—Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colors of the Dark, a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick Winner of the Crime Writers’ Association’s John Creasy New Blood Dagger Award and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Kat Frank knows all about loss. A widowed single mother, Kat is a cop who trusts her intuition, honed through years of on-the-beat police work. Picked to lead a p... continue
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IrelandDescription:
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the ... continue
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Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne EN
FranceDescription:
Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snaefellsjokull, encountering many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, before eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy, at the Stromboli volcano. From a scientific point of view, this story has not aged quite as well as other Verne stories, since most of his id... continue
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Juno Loves Legs : A Novel by Karl Geary EN
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For fans of Shuggie Bain and A Little Life, Juno Loves Legs is the epic and heartbreaking story of a young friendship set in working-class Dublin in the 1980s Juno Loves Legs is the story of two teens labeled as delinquents. Juno and "Legs" grow up on the same housing estate in Dublin, where spirited, intelligent Juno is ostracized for her poverty and Legs is persecuted for his sexuality; they find safety only in each other. Set against the backdrop of Dublin in the 1980s, a place of political, social and religious change, the friends yearn for an unbound life and together they begin to fight ... continue
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From the green hilltops of Kampala, to the terraced houses of London, Neema Shah’s extraordinarily moving debut Kololo Hill explores what it means to leave your home behind, what it takes to start again, and the lengths some will go to protect their loved ones. 'Shah explores the chaos and fear of ordinary people’s lives during Amin’s rule, weaving personal stories of love and betrayal into heightening tension and violence . . . nail-biting.' - Independent Uganda, 1972. A devastating decree is issued: all Ugandan Asians must leave the country in ninety days. They must take only what they can c... continue
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L'étrangère by Valérie Toranian FR
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"Elle tricote. Je sors mon carnet. - Raconte-moi précisément ce qui s'est passé dans les convois... - Plus tard... Je rêve de recueillir cette histoire qui est aussi la mienne et elle s'y oppose comme une gamine butée. - Quand plus tard ? - Quand tu auras eu ton bébé". Aravni garde farouchement le silence sur son passé. Sa petite-fille, Valérie, aimerait pourtant qu'elle lui raconte son histoire, l'Arménie, Alep, Constantinople et Marseille. Dans ce récit qui traverse le siècle, elle écrit le roman de la vie, ou plutôt des vies d'Aravni : de la toute jeune fille fuyant le génocide arménien en ... continue
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L'heure du chacal by Bernhard Jaumann FR
GermanyDescription:
La saison des pluies tarde à venir en ce mois de janvier et la Namibie courbe l'échine sous la chaleur et la sécheresse. A Windhoek, la capitale, un homme est abattu à la kalachnikov à travers les barbelés électrifiés de sa propriété. C'est le premier d'une série de meurtres. Les victimes - riches et blanches - ont toutes, vingt ans plus tôt, trempé dans l'assassinat d'un avocat, Anton Lubowski. Clemencia Garrise est chargée de l'enquête. Elle est noire, originaire d'un township. Des exactions de l'apartheid et du combat pour l'indépendance de la Namibie, elle ne connaît que les histoires qu'o... continue