Popular European Short Story Books
Find short story books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (188)
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Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga EN
SpainDescription:
Obabakoak means 'events that happened in Obaba', the village at the centre of a novel composed of 26 linked tales and parodies written with a delicate sense of childlike innocence. Underlying these stories is a darker theme of loss, as the narrator of the book becomes a victim of his own tales.
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Octopussy and the Living Daylights by Ian Fleming EN
EnglandDescription:
Octopussy and the Living Daylights has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
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FranceDescription:
A haunting, bizarre short story collection about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradictions of the twentieth-century female experience. A close friend and protégé of Marguerite Duras, Barbara Molinard (1921-1986) wrote and wrote feverishly, but only managed to publish one book in her lifetime: the surreal, nightmarish collection Panics. These thirteen stories beat with a frantic, off-kilter rhythm as Molinard obsesses over sickness, death, and control. A woman becomes transfixed by a boa constrictor at her local zoo, mysterious surgeons dismember their patient, and the author narr... continue
Ireland105.
Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed EN
Country: Europe / 
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these and other sunny images are all they know about life in the Caribbean. However, if you want to learn how the locals truly live and experience the dark and often harrowing truths that lurk behind the idyllic imagery of Caribbean culture, then come visit the town of Pleasantview. Come during election season, and see how one candidate sets out to slaughter endangered turtles - just for fun. Or come on the day the other candidate beats his "outside-woman," so badly she ends up losing their baby. Then come on the night of the political ... continue
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IcelandDescription:
WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023 'A book like a blade of light, searching out and illuminating the darkest corners of history . . . It's vivid, unputdownable, alive, and written with unerring artfulness and subtlety.' Neel Mukherjee Gunnar Kampen grows up in Reykjavík during the Second World War in a household fiercely opposed to Hitler and Nazism. A caring brother and son, at nineteen he seems set to lead a conventional life. Yet in the spring of 1958, he founds a covert, anti-Semitic nationalist party with ties to a burgeoning international network of neo-Nazis - a cause tha... continue
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Reis naar een donker hart by Peter Hoeg NL
DenmarkDescription:
Op 18 maart 1929 vindt de inwijding van de spoorlijn van Kabinda naar Katanga plaats. De jonge Deen David Rehn is daarbij aanwezig.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina109.
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield EN
Description:
Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award From White Review Short Story Prize winner Julia Armfield, a brilliant, provocative debut story collection for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly Link. In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women’s experiences in contemporary society, mapped through their bodies. As urban dwellers’ sleeps become disassociated from them, like Peter Pan’s shadow, a city turns insomniac. A teenager entering puberty finds her body transforming in ways very different than her classmates’. As a popular band gathers momentum, the fangirl... continue
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Scenes from a Childhood by Jon Fosse EN
NorwayDescription:
A haunting collection from one of Norway's most celebrated writers.