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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EnglandDescription:
A hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature. Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that “there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.” Kingsley Amis’s scabrous debut leads the reader through a gallery of emphatical... continue
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An unforgettable debut about a young British Ghanaian woman as she navigates her twenties and finds her place in the world, for readers of Queenie and The Other Black Girl.
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Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali EN
BulgariaDescription:
"The pain of losing something precious can be forgotten over time. But our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache.' A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade and discover life in 1920s Berlin. There, amid the city's bustling streets, elegant museums, passionate politics and seedy cabarets, a chance meeting transforms his life forever. Caught between his desire for freedom and his yearning to belong, he struggles to hold on to the new life he has found."
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Malas mujeres by María Hesse ES
SpainDescription:
Una historia de las mujeres que han encarnado el mal, llena de humor e inteligencia, por la autora de Frida Kahlo y El placer, con más de 200.000 lectores TODAS #MALASMUJERES UNO DE LOS DIEZ LIBROS MÁS ESPERADOS DE 2022 SEGÚN ESQUIRE NI LOCAS, NI TONTAS, NI PROVOCADORAS, NI FATALES: ¡MUJERES, BIENVENIDAS AL AQUELARRE! Desde la aparición de los primeros mitos, lo universal ha sido la narración de los hombres, esa visión masculina que dibujó a unos y a otras, nos dijo cómo debíamos ser -puras, dóciles, amorosas- y previno al mundo de las malas mujeres, ya fueran vengativas gorgonas, crueles madr... continue
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Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell EN
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'It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for it.'Set in Manchester in the 1840s - a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation - Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city's working-class community. Paralleling the novel's treatment of the relationship between masters and men, the suffering of the poor, and the workmen's angry response, is the story of Mary herself: a factory-worker's daughter who attracts the attentions of the mill-owner's son, she becomes caught up in the violence of class conflict when a brutal m... continue
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ScotlandDescription:
A heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong friendship.
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Mein Name sei Gantenbein by Max Frisch DE
Country: Europe / 
Switzerland
Switzerland
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Der Erzähler erfindet (»Ich stelle mir vor:«) mögliche Lebensgeschichten dreier Personen: Da ist Gantenbein, der einen Blinden spielt, um so genauer seine Umwelt beobachten zu können. Oder da ist Enderlin, der immer »ein fremder Herr« bleibt. Auch Svoboda muß die Erfahrung machen, daß Liebe und Ehe endlich sind. Übrig im Spiel der erdichteten Rollen bleibt: Gantenbein.
Italy100.
Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiri Weil EN
Country: Europe / 
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
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SS Officer Juliyus Schlesinger is ordered to remove the statue of the Jewish composer Mendelssohn from the roof of the Prague Academy of Music before an official concert. Unsure which of the statues is Mendelssohn, he tells his men to remove the one with the biggest nose. Unfortunately, this is the statue of Wagner.