Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (4422)
1051.
The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier EN
FranceDescription:
A New York Times bestseller and a "Best Thriller of the Year" Winner of the Goncourt Prize and now an international phenomenon, this dizzying, whip-smart novel blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight. Who would we be if we had made different choices? Told that secret, left that relationship, written that book? We all wonder—the passengers of Air France 006 will find out. In their own way, they were all living double lives when they boarded the plane: Blake, a respectable family man who works as a contract killer. Slimboy, a Nig... continue
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See EN
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Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu (“women’s writing”). Some girls were paired with laotongs, “old sames,” in emotional matches that lasted throughout their lives. They painted letters on fans, embroidered messages on handk... continue
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The Last of the Just by André Scwartz-Bart EN
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The Goncourt Prize–winning novel of Jewish life and persecution from the twelfth century to WWII: “a powerful book—an eloquent and enduring testament” (Kirkus, starred review), On March 11, 1185, in the old Anglican city of York, the Jews of the city were brutally massacred by their townsmen. As legend has it, God blessed the only survivor of this medieval pogrom, Rabbi Yom Tov Levy, as one of the Lamed-Vov, the thirty-six Just Men of Jewish tradition, a blessing which extended to one Levy of each succeeding generation. In The Last of the Just, this terrifying and remarkable legacy is traced o... continue
1055.
Mit uns wäre es anders gewesen by Éliette Abécassis DE
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Amélie und Vincent treffen sich in jungen Jahren an der Sorbonne in Paris. Aus tiefen Blicken wird eine Nacht, in der sie an der Seine entlangspazieren. Im Morgengrauen verabreden sie sich für den nächsten Tag. Vincent kommt, Amélie nicht. Zerfressen von Unsicherheit befürchtet sie, Vincents Interesse könne nicht ernst gemeint sein. Als sie schließlich doch zum Treffpunkt eilt, ist Vincent fort. Jahre vergehen, Vincent und Amélie erleben andere Leidenschaften und andere Ernüchterungen. Sie gehen Ehen ein, bekommen Kinder und warten auf ein Fa... continue
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Therese and Isabelle by Violette Leduc EN
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I'm trying to express as exactly, as minutely as possible the sensations of physical love. There's something here that a woman can understand. I hope this won't appear more scandalous than the thoughts of Molly Bloom at the end of Joyce's Ulysses. Every sincere psychological analysis deserves to be heard, I think. Violette Leduc Charged with metaphors, alternating with precise descriptions of sensations and human relationships, 'Therese and Isabelle' was censored by its publisher in France in 1954, first published in a truncated version in 1966 and not until 2000 in its uncensored edition, as ... continue
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Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin EN
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘A mighty achievement’ OCEAN VUONG ‘Beautiful, brilliant’ R. F. KUANG ‘Dazzling’ OBSERVER ‘Will shatter your heart’ GLAMOUR
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Letter to Survivors by Gebe EN
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A haunting and darkly funny post-apocalyptic graphic novel that follows an unusual postal worker on his very bizarre mail route. Amid the blasted rubble of a once-perfect suburb, a hazmat-suited postman delivers the mail, aloud. He shouts his letters down a vent to the bunker-bound family below. They describe the family's prosperous past life, and then get stranger and stranger... Drawn by the famed cartoonish and Charlie Hebdo contributor Gébé, and never before available in English, Letter to Survivors is a blackhearted delight, a scathing, impassioned send-up of consumerist excess and nuclea... continue
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Mystère et chocolat by Jean Alessandrini FR
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Que se passe-t-il donc au 59 bis, rue Léon-Robinet ? Sidonie, la fille des nouveaux locataires, intriguée par les mystères qui règnent dans l’immeuble, décide de mener l’enquête. Est-il vrai qu’un monstre habite au sixième ? Qui distribue cet irrésistible chocolat dont plus personne ne peut se passer ? Qui sont ces inconnus à lunettes noires qu’on croise dans l’escalier ?