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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DenmarkDescription:
Beginning in the middle of crisis, then accelerating through plots that grow stranger by the page, Naja Marie Aidt's stories have a feel all their own. Though they are built around the common themes of sex, love, desire, and gender, Aidt pushes them into her own desperate, frantic realm. In one, a whore shows up unannounced at a man's apartment, roosts in his living room, and then violently threatens him when he tries to make her leave. In another, a wife takes her husband to a city where it is women, not men, who are the dominant sex-but was it all a hallucination when she finds herself tied ... continue
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Baltic Belles : The Dedalus Book of Estonian Women's Literature by Elle-Mari Talivee EN
EstoniaDescription:
This anthology presents readers with a broad selection of fiction written between the late 19th century and today. The collection opens with the early realist Elisabeth Aspe, who described both village life and urban fear during the final decades of the 19th century. Early 20th-century works by female writers often discussed the young creative individual's encounters in the transformed urbanised world, some of the most outstanding examples of which are by the great Betti Alver. After World War II, Estonian writing bore the unmistakable signs of Soviet censorship. Nevertheless, Viivi Luik's mom... continue
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Bambert's Book of Missing Stories by Reinhardt Jung EN
GermanyDescription:
A recluse, having written stories peopled with beloved characters, releases them into the world on hot-air balloons, hoping they will find life and return to him.
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Barcelona negra by Adriana V. López (Editora) ES
SpainDescription:
Su belleza solitaria, rodeada por montañas y con vistas al mar, sus alegres calles y sus elegantes monumentos convierten a Barcelona en una ciudad bonita y acogedora. Pero no nos equivoquemos: Barcelona, con todo su encanto y color, no podido siempre ocultar su lado oscuro. Represión, drogas o inmigración son sólo algunos de los temas que aparecen en catorce historias que nos transportan desde lo más típico, desde las Ramblas a Gaudí, a la parte más corrupta y deshonesta de la ciudad, a la Barcelona que nunca aparecerá en un recorrido turístico. En esta antología encontraremos, así, relatos hi... continue
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Best European Fiction 2011 (Best European Fiction) by Aleksandar Hemon, Various EN
Country: Europe / 
Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein
Description:
“Best European Fiction is an exhilarating read.”—Time The launch of Dalkey’s Best European Fiction series was nothing short of phenomenal, with wide-ranging coverage in international media such as Time magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, and the Guardian; glowing reviews and interviews in print and online magazines such as the Believer, Bookslut, Paste, and the Huffington Post; radio interviews with editor Aleksandar Hemon on NPR stations in the US and BBC Radio 3 and 4 in the UK; and a terrific response from booksellers, who made Best European ... continue
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Slovenia27.
Best of. proza scurtă a anilor 2000 by Marius Chivu RO
RomaniaDescription:
Daca romanele scriitorilor din noua generatie au avut parte de succes la public si de receptare critica, proza scurta a ramas in schimb prea putin cunoscuta si apreciata. Aceasta antologie, o premiera in spatiul editorial romanesc, reprezinta astfel si un act de recuperare, menit sa duca la redescoperirea si reevaluarea genului scurt si a noii generatii de prozatori. Ioana Baetica Morpurgo T.O. Bobe Lavinia Braniste Dan Coman Luca Dinulescu Adrian Georgescu Radu Pavel Gheo Silviu Gherman Florin Lazarescu Dan Lungu Cosmin Manolache Mihai Mateiu Mitos Micleusanu Angelo Mitchievici Veronica D. Ni... continue
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Call Me Esteban by Lejla Kalamujić EN
Country: Europe / 
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
"With unapologetic vividness, Lejla Kalamujic depicts pre- and post-war Sarajevo by charting a daughter coping with losing her mother, but discovering herself. From imagined conversations with Franz Kafka to cozy apartments, psychiatric wards, and cemeteries, Call Me Esteban is a piercing meditation on a woman grasping at memories in the name of claiming her identity."--
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Cartea râsului şi a uitării by Milan Kundera RO
Country: Europe / 
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
„Această carte este în totalitatea ei un roman în formă de variaţiuni. În succesiunea lor, fiecare capitol constituie o etapă diferită a unei călătorii ce duce în interiorul unei teme, în interiorul unei idei, în interiorul unei situaţii unice, a cărei înţelegere se pierde pentru mine în nemărginire. E un roman despre Tamina şi, din clipa în care Tamina părăseşte scena, devine un roman pentru Tamina.Ea este personajul principal şi principalul ascultător, toate celelalte întâmplări fiind o variaţiune a propriei sale poveşti... continue
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Cât de mult o iubim pe Glenda by Julio Cortázar RO
BelgiumDescription:
"Cit de mult o iubim pe Glenda" este o colectie de zece povestiri: cosmaruri care se petrec la lumina zilei, permutari imperceptibile intre realitate si fantastic, umor, violenta si melancolie. De la ambiguitatea extrema, care comunica cu tine fara sa-ti dai seama, construindu-ti in minte imagini care n-au fost niciodata pe hirtie, la structuri perfect coerente, dar cu atit mai nelinistitoare, temele lui Cortazar se incheaga dincolo de limbajul nostru, de gindurile pe care ni le-am fi imaginat posibile, jucindu-se cu visele, pisicile si femeile, pictura, timpul sau muzica in infinite... continue