Popular European Cultural Books
Find cultural books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (106)
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Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante EN
ItalyDescription:
An Italian master's magnum opus about three generations of women, now in the first-ever unabridged English translation. Winner of the 2024 Society of Authors John Florio Prize for for the best translation from Italian and the 2024 American Literary Translator Association's Italian Prose in Translation Prize Elsa Morante is one of the titans of twentieth-century literature—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the writer of her own generation that she most admired—and yet her work remains little known in the United States. Written during World War II, Morante’s celebrated first novel, Lies and Sorcery,... continue
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UkraineDescription:
Set in the Malay Archipelago, this novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. It explores the dilemmas of conscience, of moral isolation, of loyalty and betrayal confronting a sensitive individual whose romantic quest for an honourable ideal are tested to the limit.
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Mă razumeşti, fata mea ... : note de teren pe Valea Moravei by Otilia Hedeșan EN
RomaniaDescription:
ram la Trešnjevica, în Serbia, pe Valea Moravei. Dimineața de 25 august 2002 a fost prima petrecută în sat. Mergând pe mâna câtorva femei pe care le întâlnisem cu o zi înainte în piața din orașul cel mai apropiat, Jagodina, am plecat să o caut pe Păuna. Am povestit o dimineață întreagă pe veranda casei ei aproape monumentale, stând față în față la o masă de cel puțin doi metri și jumătate lățime. Păuna vorbea fascinant, absolut fascinant, ceea ce mă determina ca din când în când să-i pun într... continue
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Manon des sources by Marcel Pagnol FR
FranceDescription:
Après la mort du Bossu, et la vente des Romarins, Manon et sa mère s'installent dans la grotte de Baptistine. Quelques années plus tard, Manon trouve l'occasion de se venger... Pagnol s'est souvent adapté lui-mème, passant aisé- ment du théâtre an cinéma. Ici, il fait le chemin inverse, et adapte un film en roman: Manon des sources (1963), deuxième partie de L'Eau des collines, est la mise en roman du film éponyme. tourné dix ans plus tôt. On en retrouve tous les personnages, et on est émerveillé de voir que les dialogues, qui sont souvent, mot à mot., les mèmes, « s'entendent » aussi bien sur... continue
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Me and White Supremacy : Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F Saad EN
WalesDescription:
"Originally published as The me and white supremacy workbook in 2019"--Copyright page.
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Melal : A Novel of the Pacific by Robert Barclay EN
ScotlandDescription:
On Good Friday, 1981, Rujen Keju and his two sons come face to face with their complicated inheritance--one that includes years of atomic testing and the continued military presence of the U.S. in the Pacific. In this highly original work of history and adventure, novelist Robert Barclay weaves together characters and stories from mythological times with those of the present-day to give readers a rare and unsparing look at life in the contemporary Pacific.
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Memorias del subsuelo by Fiodor Mijaïlovich Dostoevskiï ES
RussiaDescription:
En el tono airado y vitriólico de los misántropos y sin orden previo alguno, el narrador del subsuelo, un revirado funcionario medio de la ciudad de San Petersburgo, da cuenta, a sus cuarenta años, de ciertos aspectos de su vida en un convulsivo desgrane de recuerdos. Su discurso lo destina a la humanidad entera y oscila entre el ensayo filosófico y la representación en secuencias de su personalidad pusilánime y enferma.
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Mesopotamia by Serhiĭ Z︠H︡adan EN
Description:
A unique work of fiction from the troubled streets of Ukraine, giving invaluable testimony to the new history unfolding in the nation's post-independence years "One of the most astounding novels to come out of modern Ukraine. Mesopotamia is seductive, twisted, brilliant, and fierce."--Gary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure and Absurdistan This captivating book is Serhiy Zhadan's ode to Kharkiv, the traditionally Russian-speaking city in Eastern Ukraine where he makes his home. A leader among Ukrainian post‑independence authors, Zhadan employs both prose and poetry to address the disillusion... continue
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Musicophilia : Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks EN
EnglandDescription:
Revised and Expanded With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.” Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memo... continue
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NorwayDescription:
Troubled by an inability to find any meaning in his life, the 25-year-old narrator of Naive. Super quits university in an attempt to discover a raison d'etre. He recounts a series of anecdotes, which culminate in a trip to stay with his brother in New York. He writes lists. He becomes obsessed by time and whether it actually matters. He befriends a small boy who lives next door. He yearns to get to the bottom of life and how best to live it.