Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (4400)
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De tolk van Srebrenica by Hasan Nuhanovic NL
Country: Europe / 
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
Voor een getuigenis als deze schiet het predicaat ‘episch’ tekort. Hasan Nuhanović, destijds student in Sarajevo, vertelt hoe zijn ouders, zijn broer en hijzelf door het uitbreken van de oorlog in Bosnië van hun anker worden geslagen. Wat volgt is een relaas van mensen op drift. Ze moeten zien te over¬leven in de bossen langs de Drina, waar ze de zomer van 1992 doorkomen op de laatste oogst van het seizoen. Dan slaat de Bosnische winter toe en neemt Nuhanović’ verslag een ijzing¬wekkende wending. Onder mortiervuur van de Bosnische Ser¬viërs van generaal Ratko Mladić worden de Bosnische moslims... continue
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Nigdje, Niotkuda by Bekim Sejranović HR
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
U romanu Nigdje, niotkuda Bekim Sejranović prati svog junaka od djetinjstva u Brčkom, preko srednjoškolskih i fakultetskih godina u Rijeci. Završava u izbjeglištvu u Oslu. U jednoj sceni, od bačvi u kojima baka kiseli kupus, radi splav. Njime se namjerava spuštati Savom, pa dobiva od bake degenek. U drugoj je panker koji svira bas u bendu Paranoya. Zatim se skriva po Rijeci od onih koji uhićuju mladiće i šalju ih u rat u Bosnu, pa je izbjeglica u Norveškoj… Tamo ulazi u dvije „teške“ ljubavne veze, i nakon njih bježi na ledeni otok na samom sjeveru Norveške, gdje noć i dan traju po šest mjese... continue
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The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed by football, by resentment of his younger sister, and by occasional trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father; and where a young man's life is about poking at the pretensions of the city's elders with American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. Yet this is not really a memoir. It is a lovesong to Sarajevo and to Hemon's adopted Chicago; it is a heartbreaking paean to the bonds of family; it is a stirring exhortation to go out and play football - and not for the exer... continue
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Bajo presión by Faruk Šehić ES
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
En esta novela, Faruk Šehić sigue explorando, como poeta y soldado, “su guerra”, la de los Balcanes. Bajo presión está escrita durante una sucesión interminable de minutos aislados, los minutos del tiempo de la guerra que se dilatan a la vez que se congelan o pasan fugaces. En ellos, los espacios —todos— incluso el sexo cálido de una novia o el hogar, se degradan, se calcinan, se enlodan, se adulteran envueltos en los vapores etílicos de la rakija o la cerveza, en el humo de los cigarrillos malos, en los efectos de los analg&eac... continue
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The Bosnia List : A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return by Kenan Trebincevic, Susan Shapiro EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
A young survivor of the Bosnian War returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his family. The story behind the YA novel World in Between: Based on a True Refugee Story. At age eleven, Kenan Trebincevic was a happy, karate-loving kid living with his family in the quiet Eastern European town of Brcko. Then, in the spring of 1992, war broke out and his friends, neighbors and teammates all turned on him. Pero - Kenan's beloved karate coach - showed up at his door with an AK-47 - screaming: "You have one hour to leave or be killed!" Kenan’s only crime: he was Muslim. This poignant... continue
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Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert : Roman by Saša Stanišić DE
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
Als der Bürgerkrieg in den 90er Jahren Bosnien heimsucht, flieht der junge Aleksandar mit seinen Eltern in den Westen. Rastlos neugierig erobert er sich das fremde Deutschland und erzählt mit unbändiger Lust die irrwitzigen Geschichten von damals, von der großen Familie und den kuriosen Begebenheiten im kleinen Viegrad. Aleksandar fabuliert sich die Angst weg und "die Zeit, als alles gut war" wieder herbei. Aleksandar wächst in der kleinen bosnischen Stadt Vi egrad auf. Sein größtes Talent ist das Erfinden von Geschichten: Er denkt gar nicht daran, sich an die Themen der Schulaufsätze zu halte... continue