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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France42.
Country: Europe / 
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
În ziua arestării sale, K. deschide uşa camerei lui pentru a afla ce se întâmplă cu micul dejun şi declanşează astfel un val de întâmplări care se sprijină, de-a lungul întregului roman, pe metafora uşii. Acuzat de o greşeală pe care nu o cunoaşte, de nişte judecători cu care nu se întâlneşte niciodată, conform unor legi despre care nimeni nu ştie nimic, el va deschide nenumărate uşi în încercarea de a lămuri această situaţie. "Procesul", piesă de referinţă în opera acestui geniu al absurdului care a fost Kafka, renunţ... continue
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IrelandDescription:
'IF THERE WAS EVER A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES, IT'S PAUL LYNCH'S PROPHET SONG... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVER The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish... continue
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EnglandDescription:
"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Copyright page.
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RUR by Karel Čapek EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation? R.U.R., or Rossum’s Universal Robots is a play written in 1920 by Karel Čapek, a Czech writer who wrote many plays and novels, many of them with science-fiction and dystopian themes. R.U.R. is perhaps the most well-known of these works in the English-speaking world because it brought the word “robot” into the language. “Robot” is derived from the Czech word meaning “worker.” The play is set in the island headquarters of th... continue
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PortugalDescription:
Four years after a bizarre blindness plague hits the capital, the political arena is thrown into turmoil when election day is marked by an unprecedented turnout of blank ballots and rebellious acts that prompt a state of emergency declaration. By the Nobel Prize for Literature-winning author of Blindness. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.
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Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky EN
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Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time. To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: They can run away. Fleeing the household they enter a wider world they never knew existed, where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top ... continue
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Sulphuric Acid by Amélie Nothomb EN
BelgiumDescription:
Tells the fictional story of a reality TV death camp show which becomes an obsession with the French public, and how it is played out in the media.
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Swanfolk by Kristín Ómarsdóttir EN
IcelandDescription:
'Magical and disturbing' Adam Thirlwell An astonishing, mind-bending novel about a woman discovering a community of swan-people from one of Iceland's greatest writers. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE ICELANDIC WOMEN'S LITERATURE PRIZE* In the not-too-distant future, a young spy named Elisabet Eva is about to discover something that will upend her life. Elisabet likes to take long solitary walks near the lake. One day, she sees two creatures emerging from the water, half-human, half-swan. She follows them through tangles of thickets into a strange new reality. Pulled into the monomaniacal, and often viole... continue
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Termush (Faber Editions) : Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer by Sven Holm EN
DenmarkDescription:
Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic 1967 dystopia ...