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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The Collector of Worlds by Ilija Trojanow EN
BulgariaDescription:
A stunning fictionalized account of the infamous life of british colonial officer and translator sir richard francis burton A nineteenth-century British colonial officer with a rare ability to assim-ilate into indigenous cultures, Sir Richard Francis Burton was an obses-sive traveler whose journeys took him from England to British India, Arabia, and on a quest for the source of the Nile River in Africa. He learned more than twenty languages, translated The Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, and took part in the pilgrimage to Mecca, in addition to writing several travel books. This elegant nove... continue
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Time Shelter : A Novel by Georgi Gospodinov EN
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An award-winning international sensation—with a second-act dystopian twist—Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets. “At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created,” begins Time Shelter’s enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. “In the mid–seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October 22, 4,004 years before Christ.” But for our narrator, time as he knows it begins when he meets Gaustine, a “vagrant in time” who has distanced his li... continue
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Novela natural by Gueorgui Gospodinov ES
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Un editor recibe, como tantas veces, un sobre con material para ser publicado, aunque sin los datos del remitente; luego de diferir su lectura un tiempo, cuando finalmente la lee se queda admirado e inicia la búsqueda de su autor misterioso. Se puede adelantar que el buscado es un tal Georgi (o Gueorgui) Gospodinov.
En el camino habrá una silla mecedora, un divorcio, amagues de escribir una novela con los comienzos de novelas clásicas, y muchas plantas, como en una Historia natural del siglo XIX.
Y en el centro una novela escrita de manera natural, incluyendo cuotas de h... continue
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La estratagema by Léa Cohen ES
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"R?stica con solapas La ca?da del Tel?n de Acero cambiar? muchas cosas en Bulgaria, saldr?n a la luz secretos ocultos durante d?cadas, y los exiliados podr?n regresar a su pa?s y reencontrarse con aquellos de quienes se vieron obligados a separarse. Uno de esos reencuentros lleva a Eva Mar?nova, una periodista de Sof?a, a viajar a Nueva York siguiendo la pista de su pasado. All? ir? desentra?ando la historia de cuatro familias b?lgaras cuyo destino qued? truncado por las leyes antisemitas del zar Bor?s III y por el r?gimen autoritario que se impuso tras la segunda guerra mundial. En los a?os t... continue
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El mundo es grande y la salvación acecha por todas partes by Ilija Trojanow ES
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Ilija Trojanow, que es búlgaro pero escribe en alemán, es todavía para nuestros lectores un completo desconocido, aunque, sin duda, pronto los fascinará como lo hizo ya en Alemania y allí donde ha sido traducido. Pese a su juventud, su vida es casi tan prolija y azarosa como el título de su primera novela, El mundo es grande y la salvación acecha por todas partes, y su irrupción en la literatura alemana fue tan sorprendente como las historias que en ella aparecen. Pocos narradores contemporáneos en lengua alemana muestran semejante... continue
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Yo Sigo Contando Los Días by Georgi Bardarov ES
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This novel is based on a true story, the love between a Christian man and a Muslim woman in the midst of the horror of the Bosnian war and the longest blockade in the history of humanity of a city: that of Sarajevo ́s. The two protagonists, Bosko Brkic and Admira Ismic, are known as the "Romeo and Juliet of Sarajevo". The novel recounts the last hours of their attempt to escape from besieged Sarajevo, on May 19, 1993, while in this context a retrospective is made, both of their relationship, and of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the senselessness of the war.
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Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali EN
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"The pain of losing something precious can be forgotten over time. But our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache.' A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade and discover life in 1920s Berlin. There, amid the city's bustling streets, elegant museums, passionate politics and seedy cabarets, a chance meeting transforms his life forever. Caught between his desire for freedom and his yearning to belong, he struggles to hold on to the new life he has found."
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A Ballad for Georg Henig by Viktor Paskov EN
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The poignant story of an elderly, impoverished violin maker, a master craftsman who refuses to trim his values for the modern age, as seen through the eyes of his young prot�g�. A best-seller in Bulgaria, this is one of Paskow's major works.
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Four Minutes by Nataliya Deleva EN
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Giving voice to people living on the periphery in post-communist Bulgaria, Four Minutes centers around Leah, an orphan who suffered daily horrors growing up, and now struggles to integrate into society as a gay woman. She confronts her trauma by trying to volunteer at the orphanage, and to adopt a young girl--a choice that is frustrated over and over by bureaucracy and the pervasive stigma against gay women. In addition to Leah's narrative, the novel contains nine other standalone character studies of other frequently ignored voices. These sections are each meant to be read in approximately fo... continue
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Street Without A Name : Childhood And Other Misadventures In Bulgaria by Kapka Kassabova EN
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Born in Sofia, Kapka Kassabova grew up under the last years of Cold War Communism in the 1980s, emigrated after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and has loved and hated her homeland in equal measure ever since. Thirty years later, as Bulgaria was joining the EU club, Kapka revisited the country of her childhood and her own relationship to it to discover just how much it - and she - had changed. With the irreverence of an expat, the curiosity of a visitor, and the soul of a poet, Kassabova brings to life the past and present of Bulgaria, as well as probing the complicated connection between place a... continue