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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Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed EN
Country: Europe / 
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these and other sunny images are all they know about life in the Caribbean. However, if you want to learn how the locals truly live and experience the dark and often harrowing truths that lurk behind the idyllic imagery of Caribbean culture, then come visit the town of Pleasantview. Come during election season, and see how one candidate sets out to slaughter endangered turtles - just for fun. Or come on the day the other candidate beats his "outside-woman," so badly she ends up losing their baby. Then come on the night of the political ... continue
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Reinventing Love : How the Patriarchy Sabotages Heterosexual Relations by Mona Chollet EN
Country: Europe / 
Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
A new work by the author of “In Defense of Witches” that seeks to redefine heterosexual relationships and give women back their voice. As feminist principles have taken wider hold in society, and basic ideas about equality for women can seem a given, many women still struggle in one of the most important areas of life: love. Whether it’s finding a partner, seeking a commitment from one, or struggling in a relationship that is unfulfilling or even potentially abusive, women still find that deeply-engrained notions of gender and behavior can be obstacles to a healthy, loving relationship. In her... continue
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Sameproblemet by Kathrine Nedrejord NO
NorwayDescription:
Fortelleren, Marie, inviterer oss med inn i sin sfære. Alle minnene og historiene strømmer på idet hun reiser fra Paris og til familien i Finnmark for å delta i mormorens begravelse. Her er røttene hennes, storfamilien, barndomsopplevelsene og alt hun har lagt bak seg i sitt nye liv med mann og barn i Frankrike, alt hun har unnveket i mange år. Men nå som hun bestemmer seg for å skrive mormorens – áhkkus – historie, slipper hun også sin egen historie til.
Marie oppdager hvordan undertrykkelse indirekte og mer direkte... continue
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Seven Hanged by Leonid Andreyev EN
RussiaDescription:
'It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one side and death on the other in the form of two deep, gorgeous and gleaming seascapes.' This astonishing novella from 1908, newly translated for Little Black Classics by War and Peace translator Anthony Briggs, probes the emotions and experiences of seven people condemned to death in Tsarist Russia. A powerful and subtle exploration of the morality of capital punishment, it was a bestseller at the time, and, in a strange quirk of history, influenced the conspirators in the cataclysmic assassinat... continue
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Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg EN
DenmarkDescription:
She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime... It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, fell to his death from the top of his apartment building. While the boy's body is still warm, the police pronounce his death an accident. But Smilla knows her young neighbor didn't fall from the roof on his own. Soon she is following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps ... continue
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See EN
FranceDescription:
Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu (“women’s writing”). Some girls were paired with laotongs, “old sames,” in emotional matches that lasted throughout their lives. They painted letters on fans, embroidered messages on handk... continue
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Strait is the Gate by André Gide EN
Description:
Jerome Palissier, a delicate boy, spends many summers at his uncle's house in Normandy, where the whole world seems steeped in azure. There he falls deeply in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. But gradually Alissa becomes convinced that Jerome's love for her is endangering his soul.
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Belgium79.
Talking to Strangers : What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell EN
EnglandDescription:
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers---and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challengi... continue
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Talmeş balmeş de etnologie şi multe altele : Haide, bre! : incursiune subiectivă în lumea aromânilor by Irina Nicolau RO
RomaniaDescription:
Volumul "Haide, bre!: incursiune subiectivă în lumea aromânilor. Talmeş balmeş de etnologie şi multe altele", de Irina Nicolau, este o colecţie de articole şi scurte eseuri, care acoperă un spectru larg de subiecte, în cea mai mare parte pe teme etnologice. Lucrarea regretatei autoare, etnolog de prestigiu, director pentru Programe Etnologice la Muzeul Tăranului Român, a fost aşteptată cu nerăbdare de personalitâti culturale româneşti. Această lucrare, unică în peisajul lucrărilor româneşti, este de fapt alcătuită din două volume &ndash... continue