Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (4404)
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The Taste of a Man by Slavenka Drakulić EN
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A woman eats a man out of love. Tereza, a Polish student in New York realizes she can never possess Jose, a Brazilian anthropologist researching cannibalism, because he is married and a father. The only way to keep him, she decides, is to kill and eat him.
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Love in late capitalism: Ivana Sajko takes us into a war between kitchen and bedroom. He, an unemployed Dante scholar, is trying to change the world and write a novel. She, a passable actress, has given up her safe job at the theatre to care for their child. He is delirious, she is on edge. With the rent overdue and violence looming on all sides, the two of them circle one another in a dizzying dance towards the abyss. Winner of the HKW Internationaler Literaturpreis 'When I first met Ivana Sajko and heard and read her writing, I instantly knew it was something special. I felt the force of her... continue
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Dark Woods, Deep Water by Jelena Dunato EN
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n the depths of a remote forest, an enchanted castle preys on unwary travellers. The servants of the Goddess Morana sacrifice to their dark mistress every soul who crosses its threshold. One terrible night, three people who should never have met find themselves trapped there: a spoiled lady escaping an unwanted marriage, an aging warrior-prince on a deadly mission, and a resourceful rogue caught up in a botched heist. As their destinies entwine and the dawn approaches, the solution to the castle's riddle becomes clear: if they want to escape, one of them must die. A dark fantasy tale inspired ... continue
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De reparatie van de wereld by Slobodan Šnajder NL
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Een bijna mythische mini-familieroman, een grimmige schelmenroman, een schrijnende liefdesroman, een ontluisterend portret van een huwelijk, een ontzagwekkende historische roman (over Kroatië, de Tweede Wereldoorlog, het naoorlogse communisme) en, tot slot, een bijna weemoedige ideeënroman over herinnering, engagement, migratie, identiteit, de existentiële betekenis van kunst en over de grote vraag wat we nu eigenlijk aan moeten met het leven
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The Culture of Lies by Dubravka Ugrešić EN
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A funny and cynical collection of essays, apercus and sketches denouncing the perversions of political and cultural life in Croatia. The Culture of Lies was written as a reaction to the collapse of Yugoslavia and the unholy war in Croatia and Bosnia. The collection attacks and attempts to understand events in the former Yugoslavia: aggression against people's own brothers, artificial amnesties; adoption of nationalist fascist ideologies; propaganda and censorship; folklore kitsch as a culture of a lie; writers and intellectuals caught up in the Maelstrom of Nationalism. Ugresic's ascerbic and ... continue
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Celebration by Damir Karakas EN
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"This short, emotional novel follows three generations of Croatian peasants in the aftermath of World War II"--
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The Cheesemaker's Daughter by Kristin Vukovic EN
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When Marina’s father summons her to their Croatian island from New York—and away from her evaporating marriage—to help him save his failing cheese factory, she must face her rocky past and an uncertain future. How do you begin again when the past threatens to drown you? In the throes of an unraveling marriage, New Yorker Marina Maržić returns to her native Croatian island where she helps her father with his struggling cheese factory, Sirana. Forced to confront her divided Croatian-American identity and her past as a refugee from the former Yugoslavia, Marina moves in with her parents on Pag an... continue