Popular European Dystopia Books

Find dystopia books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (69)

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Ecologia : romance by Joana Bértholo PT

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Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
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Numa sociedade que se fundiu com o mercado – tudo se compra, tudo se vende – começamos a pagar pelas palavras. A estranheza inicial dá lugar ao entusiasmo. Afinal, como é que falar podia permanecer gratuito? Há seis mil idiomas no mundo. Seis mil formas diferentes de dizer «ecologia», e tão pouca ecologia. Seis mil formas diferentes de dizer «paz», e tão pouca paz. Seis mil formas diferentes de dizer «juntos», e é cada um por si.

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El proceso by Franz Kafka ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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Un día al despertarse Josef K. descubre dos hombres vestidos estrafalariamente, que vienen a arritarle, en nombre de un misterioso tribunal.....

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Erased

Erased : The State Wiped Out Her Identity, Now They Are Coming For Her Child by Miha Mazzini EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Slovenia flag Slovenia
Description:
This story is based on true events. Governments are not only collecting the information about the citizens, sometimes they are destroying or manipulating them too. Zala gives birth at the local hospital and everything goes well. There is only a small, bureaucratic problem; Zala's file is not on the computer. A software glitch, probably nothing serious. Within a few days, Zala is entangled in a web of Kafkaesque proportions; Not being in the computer means no social security, no permanent address. All of a sudden Zala is a foreigner, even though she has lived in Slovenia all of her life. Legall... continue

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Eseu despre orbire by José Saramago RO

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
Eseu despre orbire este un roman cutremurător, o mărturie a neîncrederii autorului în societatea contemporană, incapabilă să-și gestioneze și să-și rezolve crizele. Într-un oraș anonim, populat de personaje fără nume, izbucnește o boală îngrozitoare ce provoacă orbirea. Fără o cauză aparență, în afară de cea morală, oamenii își pierd, unul cîte unul, vederea și barbaria se dezlănțuie. Unică reacție a politicienilor este represiunea, urmată în curînd de apariția lagărelor. Din motive necunoscute, o singură persoană scapă de flagel – so... continue

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Fanget - Biobrikken Bok 2 by Ben Ormstad NO

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
Tiden renner ut for menneskehetens frihet. Kun et par dager gjenstår før tvangsinnføringen av biobrikken igangsettes - ikke bare Norge, men i hele verden. Biobrikken, en databrikke som sprøytes inn i hånden og registrerer alt om deg - gener og helsetilstand, hva du spiser og drikker, hvor du til enhver tid befinner deg, hvem du omgås, hva du liker og ikke liker. Alt privatliv vil forsvinne. For alltid. Makteliten vet tiden er knapp. Motstandsbevegelsen viser uventet effektiv rekruttering av medlemmer og våpenteknologisk opprustning. ----------------------------- Læreren og programmereren Ali K... continue

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Gliff by Ali Smith EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Scotland flag Scotland
Description:
From a literary master, a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowing An uncertain near-future. A story of new boundaries drawn between people daily. A not-very brave new world. Add two children. And a horse. From a Scottish word meaning a transient moment, a shock, a faint glimpse, Gliff explores how and why we endeavour to make a mark on the world. In a time when western industry wants to reduce us to algorithms and data—something easily categorizable and predictable—Smith shows us why our humanity, our individual complexities, matter more than ever.... continue

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I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman EN

Rating: 4 (53 votes)
Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
Description:
Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world. Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus? Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone an outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be t... continue


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Jakt (Biobrikken Bok 1) by Ben Ormstad NO

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
Først kom overvåkningskameraene. På hvert hushjørne, i hver gate, utenfor hvert hjem. Ikke bare i Oslo og andre byer verden over, men også i ørkenen, jungelen og i dype skoger som Finnskogen. Det var bare begynnelsen. Nå klargjøres innføringen av en databrikke som sprøytes inn i hånden og registrerer alt om deg - gener og helsetilstand, hva du spiser og drikker, hvor du til enhver tid befinner deg, hvem du omgås, hva du liker og ikke liker. Alt privatliv vil forsvinne. For alltid. Om tre dager innføres den verden over - med tvang. Biobrikken. Makteliten vet tiden er knapp. Motstand ulmer i bef... continue

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Kallocain by Karin Boye EN

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Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
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A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers Written midway between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Kallocain depicts a totalitarian 'World State' which seeks to crush the individual entirely. In this desolate, paranoid landscape of 'police eyes' and 'police ears', the obedient citizen and middle-ranking scientist Leo Kall discovers a drug that will force anyone who takes it to tell the truth. But can private thought really be obliterated? Karin Boye's chilling novel of creeping alien... continue