Popular European Short Story Books
Find short story books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (188)
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My Husband by Rumena Bužarovska EN
Country: Europe / 
North Macedonia
North Macedonia
Description:
Adulterers, cheats, hypocrites, bad seeds--in My Husband, Rumena Bužarovska turns her wry and razor-sharp gaze on men, and on the lives of the women who suffer them. In these eleven devastatingly precise and psychologically unsettling stories, we follow the female protagonists' thwarted attempts at intimacy, ranging from pretense, to denial, to violent and ultimately self-destructive acts. This smart, funny, provocative collection demonstrates the profound skills that have made Rumena Bužarovska one of the finest contemporary writers of short fiction in Macedonia.
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My Purple Scented Novel : A Short Story by Ian McEwan EN
EnglandDescription:
A jewel of a short story from the bestselling, award-winning author of Atonement—“My Purple Scented Novel” follows the perfect crime of literary betrayal, scrupulously wrought yet unscrupulously executed. Published to celebrate Ian McEwan’s 70th birthday. “You will have heard of my friend the once celebrated novelist Jocelyn Tarbet, but I suspect his memory is beginning to fade. . . . You’d never heard of me, the once obscure novelist Parker Sparrow, until my name was publicly connected with his. To a knowing few, our names remain rigidly attached, like the two ends of a seesaw. His rise coinc... continue
Finland94.
No Men, No Cry by Ugnė Barauskaitė, Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė, Jurga Ivanauskaitė EN
LithuaniaDescription:
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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No Voy a Ninguna Parte by Rumena Buzarovska ES
Country: Europe / North Macedonia
North Macedonia
Description:
A vase is the trigger for Lydia to explode with jealousy over her best friend's life. Vesna, a university professor who tolerates her husband's infidelities and her son's indifference, is at an empowered women's event at the American ambassador's residence. Ellie returns to her childhood home with the secret hope of reuniting with her former lover. No one is safe from Rumena Buzarovska's intelligent, hyper-realistic, and poignant prose, which demonstrates in her new collection of short stories the impossibility of achieving happiness for those who fled their country, but also for those who sta... continue
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski EN
GermanyDescription:
A collection of Charles Bukowski's columns for the underground LA newspaper OPEN, that epitomises his style of gritty realism.
Kosovo98.
Novelle fatte a macchina by Gianni Rodari IT
ItalyDescription:
Un coccodrillo sapiente che si presenta al Rischiatutto, Marco e Mirko contro la temibile banda del Talco, Grillo, il postino di Civitavecchia che solleva navi e Colosseo, Piano Bill, il cow-boy musicale, il sior Tòdaro, che per timore che Venezia possa affondare da un momento all'altro si trasforma in un pesce…: ecco alcuni dei personaggi del nuovo libro di Gianni Rodari, "Novelle fatte a macchina". "Che cosa succederebbe se", chiave magica e apriti Sesamo per penetrare il mondo della fantasia e dell'immaginazione, è l'interrogativo che ... continue
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O banqueiro anarquista by Fernando Pessoa PT
PortugalDescription:
Um banqueiro anarquista pode nos trazer certa estranheza. O banqueiro aqui retratado por Pessoa, considera toda a sua vida um exemplo de anarquismo e descreve como consegue resolver diversas contradições e dúvidas até chegar à 'técnica do anarquista'.
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UkraineDescription:
O Nariz é o nome de um dos contos satíricos clássicos na literatura russa. Foi escrito pelo célebre escritor Nikolai Gogol e inspirou o compositor Dmitri Shostakovich a compor a ópera homônima. Escrita entre 1835 e 1836, a narrativa conta a história de um oficial de São Petersburgo cujo nariz abandona o rosto e decide ter vida independente. O Nariz, não trata de forças sobrenaturais, mas de uma manipulação estética da qual Gogol soube tirar proveito graças à sua genialidade como escritor.