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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Tu nombre después de la lluvia by Victoria Álvarez ES
SpainDescription:
Érase una vez en Irlanda...
Corren los primeros días de enero de 1903 y el profesor Quills, un hombre sabio y triste, vuelve a su casa de Oxford después de asistir a unas conferencias en Londres; Oliver Saunders, joven y tímido, trabaja en su pequeño cuarto de Balliol College, rodeado de diccionarios y novelas góticas; Lionel Lennox, amante de la buena vida y de las faldas ligeras, está en Egipto, a punto de profanar la tumba de una princesa para llevarse una joya de inestimable valor.
Poco tienen en común los tres amigos, excepto el in... continue
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Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
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Turks Fruit is a raw, intense love story about passion, loss, and the fragility of human connection. Narrated by a wild and rebellious sculptor, the novel follows his tumultuous relationship with Olga, a free-spirited woman with whom he shares a whirlwind romance. Their deep physical and emotional bond is ultimately tested by betrayal, illness, and fate. With vivid, often provocative language, Jan Wolkers explores themes of desire, mortality, and the struggle to hold onto love in a chaotic world.
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Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război by Camil Petrescu RO
RomaniaDescription:
La apariţie, în 1930, romanul lui Camil Petrescu, Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război, a surprins critica prin caracterul lui aparent neunitar. O poveste clasică de dragoste şi un jurnal de război, greu de legat între ele. Persoana întâi a naraţiunii nu părea suficientă pentru a fi citite împreună. Şi mai era ceva, impresia, nu chiar uşor de formulat, că nici gelozia, nici războiul nu aveau înfăţişarea cunoscută din alte romane ale vremii. Ceea ce critica n-avea cum să ştie încă era că, sub ochii ei, se petrecea o reformă a r... continue
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Until You by Catharina Maura EN
Country: Europe / Netherlands
Netherlands
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Left without a job and evicted from the house she so carefully turned into a home, Aria is offered two choices: move back in with her brother... or take the job her brother's best friend offers her. Their lives weren't meant to collide - but everything changes when Grayson realizes that Aria is the mysterious woman behind a wildly popular vigilante platform. She's the woman he's been falling for online, the one whose coding skills outdo his, the one he's been trying to track down. It's her. And she's off-limits.
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Vălul pictat by William Somerset Maugham RO
FranceDescription:
Frumoasa Kitty Fane este surprinsa cu alt barbat de sotul ei, un renumit medic bacteriolog pe care-l insoteste in China coloniala. Acesta o va lua cu el intr-o zona devastata de holera, unde medicul incearca sa combata efectele teribilei maladii. O calatorie in timpul careia tanara femeie se va confrunta cu aspecte ale vietii ce-i fusesera total necunoscute pana atunci, ajungand astfel sa se descopere pe sine insasi, dar si pe cel ce-i este tovaras de viata.
Romanul a fost transpus cinematografic in 1934, Greta Garbo intruchipand‑o pe Kitty Fane. Noua ecranizare, din 2006, ii are in roluril... continue
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Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch EN
AustriaDescription:
Venus in Furs describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless Wanda von Dunajew. This is a passionate and powerful portrayal of one man's struggle to enlighten and instruct himself and others in the realm of desire. Published in 1870, the novel gained notoriety and a degree of immortality for its author when the word "masochism"—derived from his name—entered the vocabulary of psychiatry. This remains a classic literary statement on sexual submission and control. For more... continue
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NorwayDescription:
The Nobel Prize winner’s poetic, psychologically intense portrayal of love’s predicament in a class-bound society A Penguin Classic Set in a coastal village of late nineteenth-century Norway, Victoria follows two lovers whose yearnings are as powerful as the circumstances that conspire to thwart their romance. Johannes, a miller’s son turned poet, finds inspiration for his writing in his passionate devotion to Victoria, a daughter of the impoverished lord of the manor, who feels constrained by family loyalty to accept the wealthy young man of her father’s choice. Separated by class barriers an... continue
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Vielleicht Jetzt by Carolin Wahl DE
GermanyDescription:
Mitreißend, prickelnd, ergreifend! Die Reihe mit Herzklopfgarantie. Er hat klare Regeln. Doch mit ihr bricht er jede davon ... Fast hätte Gabriella in Brasilien ihren Flieger verpasst und jetzt sitzt sie auch noch neben diesem unverschämten – oder eher unverschämt gut aussehenden? – Kerl. Na toll! Obwohl er eigentlich ganz süß ist ... Aber für die Liebe hat sie ohnehin keine Zeit, schließlich fliegt sie nach München, um ihren Vater kennenzulernen. Undercover beginnt sie ein Praktikum in seiner Catering-Firma. Doch an ihrem ersten Arbeitstag in der Küche stellt sich ihr Ausbilder ausgerechnet a... continue
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Weiße Nächte by Fjodor Dostojewski DE
RussiaDescription:
"Es ist wahr, wenn ich vor einer Frau stehe, bin ich stets schüchtern und, ich gebe es zu, nicht weniger aufgeregt, als Sie (...). Jetzt bin ich erschrocken. Es ist mir, als ob alles ein Traum wäre; ich habe mir aber auch im Traume niemals vorgestellt, daß ich imstande wäre, mit irgendeinem weiblichen Wesen zu sprechen..." (Dostojewski, Zitat auf S. 8 aus "Weiße Nächte"). Die Geschichte über den schüchternen Außenseiter, der sich in eine junge Frau verliebt, gilt vielen als die schönste Novelle des russischen Autors. Fjodor Dostojewski. Weiße Nächte. Ein empfindsamer Roman (Aus den Erinnerunge... continue
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What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?: A Novel by António Lobo Antunes EN
PortugalDescription:
A soaring, symphonic epic by the Portuguese master novelist, considered to be the "heir to Conrad and Faulkner" (George Steiner). The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, António Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde—a nightclub milieu of scorching intensity and kaleidoscopic beauty, a baleful planet populated by drag queens, clowns, and drug addicts—is narrated by Paolo, the son of Lisbon's most legendary transvestite, who sea... continue