Popular European Romance Books
Find romance books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (228)
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Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan EN
IrelandDescription:
The female narrator falls completely into the power of a male writer. When he suddenly rejects her, she resolves to hang on to him and his love at all costs...even if it destroys her.
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Adam şi Eva by Liviu Rebreanu RO
RomaniaDescription:
Nu sunt puţine mărturisirile lui Liviu Rebreanu despre propria-i operă, dar una dintre ele, reluată de câte ori a avut ocazia, e de natură să surprindă, în ciuda motivaţiei ce o avansează. Întrebat de reporteri despre preferinţele sale în legătură cu creaţiile-i româneşti, nu a ezitat niciodată să răspundă Adam şi Eva. Nu ştiu dacă preferinţa autorului pentru Adam şi Eva se explică prin propriile lui mărturisiri sau dacă avem şi noi dreptate prin încercarea de a identifica un mecanism mai puţin vizibil în veşnic tăinuitele miracole ale creaţiei. Sau po... continue
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Adela by Garabet Ibrăileanu RO
Description:
E un tipic roman "fin de siecle". Este vorba despre dragostea doctorului cvadragenar, Emil Codrescu, pentru Adela, o femeie cu douazeci de ani mai tanara, maritata si divortata. Cu toate ca Adela manifesta pentru Emil simpatie, acesta delicat si fin, nu crede in posibilitatea unei uniuni. Emil Codrescu e din familia asa-numitilor, dupa o nuvela de Turgheniev, "oameni de prisos". Avem de-a face cu exemplare dotate cu mari calitati, dar care, apasate de conditii vitrege, practica o filozofie biologica deprimanta, fixand o limita arbitrara vietii, in neconcordanta cu vitalitat... continue
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Airman by Eoin Colfer EN
Description:
Conor Broekhart was born to fly. Or more accurately, he was born flying. Little wonder he became what he became. In an age of discovery and invention, many dreamed of flying, but for Conor flight was more than just a dream, it was his destiny. In one dark night on the island of Great Saltee, a cruel and cunning betrayal destroyed his life and stole his future. Now Conor must win the race for flight, to save his family and right a terrible wrong...
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Älä koskaan pyyhi kyyneleitä paljain käsin : Rakkaus by Jonas Gardell FI
SwedenDescription:
Kiihkeän ja koskettavan trilogian avaus – Pohjoismainen kirjatapaus! ”Tämän tarinan asiat ovat tapahtuneet. Kaikki on totta. Minä olen yksi selvinneistä. Tämä on minun ja ystävieni tarina.” Syyskuussa 1982 Rasmus astuu junasta Tukholmaan eikä aio palata jouluksi kotiin. Hän on nuori ja kaunis, ja kuin syleilyyn hän heittäytyy Tukholman gay-yhteisöön. Benjamin kiertää ovelta ovelle, hän kertoo Jehovasta ja koputtaa Paulin oveen. Tuon oven takana Benjamin kohtaa Rasmuksen, eikä mikään ole entisensä. Jonas Gardellin ylistetty romaanitrilogia 1980-luvun aids-epidemiasta kertoo, mitä heille tapahtu... continue
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An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector EN
UkraineDescription:
Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writer Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only “to love and to be loved,” but also “to be worthy of life itself.” Published in 1968, An Apprenticeship is Clarice Lispector’s attempt to reinvent herself following th... continue
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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy EN
RussiaDescription:
Presents the classic nineteenth-century Russian novel in which a young woman is destroyed when she attempts to live outside the moral law of her society.