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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Ministerul durerii by Dubravka Ugrešič RO
CroatiaDescription:
Ministerul durerii (2005) este un roman despre nostalgia apartenentei, despre farmecul si oroarea trecutului recent. Protagonista acestuia, Tanja Luciä, paraseste Zagrebul devastat de razboi si ajunge sa predea limba si literatura fostei Iugoslavii la Universitatea din Amsterdam unei grupe de studenti, la rindul lor exilati. Confruntata cu dificultatea de a gasi un teren comun pentru discutii, Tanja transforma seminariile intr-un program experimental de terapie literara, menit sa exorcizeze demonii prezentului si sa redescopere o coeziune distrusa de razboi. Acest periplu al memoriei... continue
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Café Europa : Life After Communism by Slavenka Drakulic EN
Description:
“Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and writer whose voice belongs to the world.” —Gloria Steinem Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free market economy and de jure democracy. But as Slavenka Drakulic observes, "in everyday life, the revolution consists much more of the small things—of sounds, looks and images." In this brilliant work of political reportage, filtered through her own experience, we see that Europe remains a divided continent. In the place of the fallen Berlin Wall there is a chasm between ... continue
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Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street by Heda Margolius Kovály EN
Country: Europe / 
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
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Czech Holocaust memoirist, literary translator and political exile Heda Margolius Kovly turned her pen to fiction. Inspired by Chandler, Kovaly knit her own terrifying experiences in early 1950s Socialist Prague: her husband's imprisonment and wrongful execution and her own persecution at his disgrace, into a smart and evocative psychological thriller-cum-detective novel. Set in and around a cinema where a murder was recently committed, follows the unfolding of the investigation while telling the stories of the women who work there as ushers, each of whom is forced to support herself.
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A Cup of Coffee with My Interrogator : The Prague Chronicles of Ludvík Vaculík by Ludvík Vaculík EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
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Analytische annotatie: Verhalen.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover—these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.
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All This Belongs to Me by Petra Hulova, Alex Zucker EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
"Alta, Zaya, Nara, Oyuna and Dolgorna - a mother, three sisters, and the teenage daughter of one of the sisters - each tell their pieces of the family story, an epic fraught with secrets and betrayals, in All This Belongs to Me, the debut novel of Petra Hulova." "All This Belongs to Me transports the reader from Mongolia's harsh, dusty steppe to the clamor and grime of the capital, Ulaanbantar; from nomanic herding and felt tents to brothels and prefab apartment blocks. With a filmic eye and a dead-on ear, Hulova vividly conveys the landscapes and lives of three generations of women. Two of th... continue
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most wi... continue
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Gerta : A Novel by Kateřina Tučková EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
The award-winning novel by Czech author Kateřina Tučková--her first to be translated into English--about the fate of one woman and the pursuit of forgiveness in a divided postwar world. 1945. Allied forces liberate Nazi-occupied Brno, Moravia. For Gerta Schnirch, daughter of a Czech mother and a German father aligned with Hitler, it's not deliverance; it's a sentence. She has been branded an enemy of the state. Caught in the changing tides of a war that shattered her family--and her innocence--Gerta must obey the official order: she, along with all ethnic Germans, is to be expelled from Czecho... continue
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Het spookje by Otfried Preußler NL
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
In Slot Uilenstein woont het spookje. Elke nacht, als de klok twaalf slaat, wordt hij wakker en spookt hij vrolijk rond. Hij heeft een sleutelbos met dertien sleutels, waarmee hij alle deuren en kisten kan openen. Het liefste gaat hij langs bij zijn beste vriend, de uil Oehoe Sjoehoe, om samen herinneringen op te halen aan kanonnen, soldaten, oorlogen en een weddenschap met een Graaf. Het spookje is heel gelukkig. Alleen valt hij altijd om één uur weer in slaap... en hij zou zo graag eens zien hoe het leven er overdag uitziet. Al was het maar één keertje. Zal het he... continue