Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (4393)
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Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko EN
BelarusDescription:
“Lays bare the . . . history of a ruthless Russian state with the story of an unlikely friendship between a young widower and a survivor of Stalin’s gulag.” —Publishers Weekly Sasha Filipenko traces the arc of Russian history from Stalin’s terror to the present day, in a novel full of heart and humanity. One struggles not to forget, while the other would like nothing better. Tatiana Alexeyevna is an old woman, over ninety, rich in lived experience, and suffering from Alzheimer’s. Every day, she loses a few more of her irreplaceable memories. Alexander is a young father whose life has been brut... continue
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War's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Aleksievich EN
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"This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in it, describing how young girls, who dreamed of becoming brides, became soldiers in 1941. More than 500,000 Soviet women participated on a par with men in the Second World War, the most terrible war of the 20th century. Women not only rescued and bandaged the wounded but also fires a sniper's rifle, blew up bridges, went reconnoitering and killed... They killed the enemy who, with unprecedented cruelty, had attacked their land, their homes and their children. Soviet writer of Byelorussia, Svetla... continue
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Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Mort Valzhyna Mort EN
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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY The New York Times In her book of letters to the dead, the prize-winning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history. With shocking, unforgettable lyric force, Valzhyna Mort’s Music for the Dead and Resurrected confronts the legacy of violent death in one family in Belarus. In these letters to the dead, the poet asks: How do we mourn after a century of propaganda? Can private stories challenge the collective power of Soviet and American historical mythology? Mort traces a route ... continue
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Automat z wodą gazowaną z syropem lub bez. Powieść mińska by Uładzimir Niaklajeu PL
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Automat z wodą gazowaną z syropem z lub bez. Powieść mińska to drugie wydanie książki z roku 2015 o tym samym tytule. Jest to opowieść o pragnieniu wolności w Mińsku dławionym żelazną pięścią sowieckiego totalitaryzmu. W gronie stiljagów, noszących koszule w papugi i słuchających rock’n’rolla, rozgrywa się historia miłości, przyjaźni i rozczarowania. W końcu zostaje tylko bezradność po zderzeniu się z twardą rzeczywistością niczym z automatem, z którego nie da się wydusić porcji gazowanej wody. Równorzędnym bohaterem powieści jest stolica Białorusi, zamieszkana przez fascynujące postaci – ling... continue
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The Little Girl Who Could Not Cry by Lidia Maksymowicz, Paolo Luigi Rodari EN
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The No. 1 international bestseller, with a foreword written by His Holiness Pope Francis, who made headlines in 2021 when he kissed Lidia's Auschwitz identification tattoo.
The unforgettable, moving true story of the little girl who survived Auschwitz's 'Angel of Death', Dr Mengele.
Lidia was just three years old when she arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau with her mother, a member of the partisan resistance from Belarus. The bewildered little girl was picked out by Dr Josef Mengele for his sadistic experiments and sent to the infamous children’s block, where every ... continue
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Savage Feast by Boris Fishman EN
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The acclaimed author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told, recipe-filled memoir. A family story, an immigrant story, a love story, and an epic meal, Savage Feast explores the challenges of navigating two cultures from an unusual angle. A revealing personal story and family memoir told through meals and recipes, Savage Feast begins with Boris’s childhood in Soviet Belarus, where good food was often worth more than money. He describes the unlikely dish that brought his parents together and how years of Holocaust hunger left his grandmother so obsessed... continue
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Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar EN
BelgiumDescription:
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era.
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Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar EN
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Julio Cortazar's crazed masterpiece, the forbearer of the Latin Boom in the 1960s - published in Vintage Classics for the first time 'Cortazar's masterpiece. This is the first great novel of Spanish America... A powerful anti-novel but, like deeply understood moments in life itself, rich with many kinds of potential meanings and intimations' Times Literary Supplement Dazed by the disappearance of his muse, Argentinian writer Horatio Oliveira wanders the bridges of Paris, the sounds of jazz and the talk of literature, life and art echoing around him. But a chance encounter with a literary idol ... continue
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Nadat Vanilla en haar vriend een grote diamant hebben gestolen en weer zijn kwijtgeraakt, begint een doldwaze en spannende zoektocht. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.