Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (4403)
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I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole : An Elias Canetti Reader by Elias Canetti EN
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A career-spanning collection of writings by the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, edited and introduced by Joshua Cohen He embarked on no adventures, he was in no war. He was never in prison, he never killed anyone. He neither won nor lost a fortune. All he ever did was live in this century. But that alone was enough to give his life dimension, both of feeling and of thought. Here, in his own words, is one of the twentieth century's foremost critics--a dizzyingly inventive, formally unplaceable, unstoppably peripatetic writer by the name of Elias Canetti, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literat... continue
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Elixir : In the Valley at the End of Time by Kapka Kassabova EN
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A search for a cure to what ails us in the Anthropocene by the award-winning author of Border In Elixir, in a wild river valley and amid the three mountains that define it, Kapka Kassabova seeks out the deep connection between people, plants, and place. The Mesta is one of the oldest rivers in Europe and the surrounding forests and mountains of the southern Balkans are an extraordinarily rich nexus for plant gatherers. Over several seasons, Kassabova spends time with the people of this magical region. She meets women and men who work in a long lineage of foragers, healers, and mystics. She lea... continue
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Foul Days by Genoveva Dimova EN
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The Witcher meets Naomi Novik in this fast-paced fantasy rooted in Slavic folklore, from an assured new voice in genre fiction As a witch in the walled city of Chernograd, Kosara has plenty of practice taming rusalkas, fighting kikimoras, and brewing lycanthrope repellent. There’s only one monster Kosara can’t defeat: her ex the Zmey, known as the Tsar of Monsters. She’s defied him one too many times, and now he’s hunting her. Betrayed to him by someone close to her, Kosara’s only hope is to trade her shadow—the source of her powers—for illegal passage across the Wall to Belograd, where monste... continue
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Física de la tristeza by Georgi Gospodinov ES
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Partiendo de la figura del Minotauro, Gospodínov construye un laberinto de historias sobre su familia, saltando de una era a otra, de una identidad a otra, para recorrer los meandros de la memoria individual y colectiva de su país y de todo el continente. Novelista, poeta y dramaturgo, traducido a veintitrés idiomas, Gueorgui Gospodínov es el escritor contemporáneo más leído y premiado de Bulgaria. La publicación de su segunda novela, Física de la tristeza, ha sido saludad internacionalmente como uno de los acontecimientos literari... continue
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De wereldverzamelaar by Ilija Trjojanow NL
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De Britse officier Richard Burton (1821-1890) was een van die zeldzame excentrieke avonturiers van de negentiende eeuw. Zijn honger naar kennis van andere culturen, talen en religies was onstilbaar. Burtons reizen strekten zich uit tot Arabië, Afrika en Brits-India. Over deze pionier heeft Ilija Trojanow een kleurrijke roman geschreven
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Kleuren van verschrikking by Jordan Ivantsjev NL
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Een groepje politieke vluchtelingen probeert in 2002 in een chaotisch, postcommunistisch Bulgarije de grens te bereiken.
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The Same Night Awaits Us All by Hristo Karastoyanov EN
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Anarchism, dissent, poetry, and the avant-garde mix in this playful retelling of the assassination of Bulgaria's greatest poet.
