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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Die Nacht : Erinnerung und Zeugnis by Elie Wiesel DE
RomaniaDescription:
Atemlos, bewusst karg im Stil erzählt der Friedensnobelpreisträger seine Erfahrung als Kind in Auschwitz. Jede Zeile spricht uns unmittelbar an.
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Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann EN
GermanyDescription:
"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece." —The New Yorker "Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods." —The New Republic Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck ga... continue
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Dogs of Summer : A Novel by Andrea Abreu EN
SpainDescription:
"[A] firecracker of a debut." —The New York Times "Andrea Abreu’s debut novel about two girls in the summer heat of Tenerife is perfect for these dog days." —Shreya Chattopadhyay, The New York Times Book Review My Brilliant Friend meets Blue is the Warmest Color in this lyrical debut novel set in a working-class neighborhood of the Canary Islands—a story about two girls coming of age in the early aughts and a friendship that simmers into erotic desire over the course of one hot summer. High near the volcano of northern Tenerife, an endless ceiling of cloud cover traps the working class in an a... continue
England45.
El Mapa de Los Anhelos by Alice Kellen ES
Description:
La autora que ha enamorado a más de un millón de lectores ¿Y si te diesen un mapa para descubrir quién eres? ¿Seguirías la ruta marcada hasta el final? Imagina que estás destinada a salvar a tu hermana, pero al final ella muere y la razón de tu existencia se desvanece. Eso es lo que le ocurre a Grace Peterson, la chica que siempre se ha sentido invisible, la que nunca ha salido de Nebraska, la que colecciona palabras y ve pasar los días refugiada en la monotonía. Hasta que llega a sus manos el juego de El mapa de los anhelos y, siguiendo las instrucciones, lo primero que debe hacer es encontra... continue
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Elixir : In the Valley at the End of Time by Kapka Kassabova EN
BulgariaDescription:
A search for a cure to what ails us in the Anthropocene by the award-winning author of Border In Elixir, in a wild river valley and amid the three mountains that define it, Kapka Kassabova seeks out the deep connection between people, plants, and place. The Mesta is one of the oldest rivers in Europe and the surrounding forests and mountains of the southern Balkans are an extraordinarily rich nexus for plant gatherers. Over several seasons, Kassabova spends time with the people of this magical region. She meets women and men who work in a long lineage of foragers, healers, and mystics. She lea... continue
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Emma by Jane Austen RO
Description:
„Jane Austen avea cel mai minunat dar din câte am întâlnit în a descrie implicaţiile, sentimentele şi caracterele din viaţa obişnuită. Rafinamentul cu care transformă personajele şi situaţiile din banale în interesante, tuşa de veridic pe care o imprimă descrierilor şi sentimentelor sunt lucruri la care eu nu pot decât să aspir.” – SIR WALTER SCOTT
„Domnişoara Austen a înţeles perfect dimensiunea măruntă a vieţii... A fost o mare creatoare, egală – în mica ei sferă – cu Shakespeare…” – ALFRE... continue
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Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Jim, an eleven-year-old British schoolboy living in Shanghai in 1941, must learn to survive on his own when he is separated from his parents and sent to a Japanese prison camp
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Eurotrash by Christian Kracht EN
Country: Europe / 
Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
Realising he and she are the very worst kind of people, our unnamed middle-aged narrator embarks on a highly dubious road trip through Switzerland with his terminally ill and terminally drunken mother. They try unsuccessfully to give away or squander the fortune she has amassed from investing in armament industry shares. Along the journey they bicker endlessly over the past, throw handfuls of fran[Bokinfo].