Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (4406)
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Reis naar een donker hart by Peter Hoeg NL
DenmarkDescription:
Op 18 maart 1929 vindt de inwijding van de spoorlijn van Kabinda naar Katanga plaats. De jonge Deen David Rehn is daarbij aanwezig.
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The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol, Agnete Friis EN
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Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive. Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina... continue
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On the Calculation of Volume (Book II) by Solvej Balle EN
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Tara Selter's epic journey through November 18th continues in Book II of the masterly On the Calculation of Volume from one of Scandinavia's most beloved writers.
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According to the Law : Four Accounts of Mankind by Solvej Balle EN
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Short stories on obsession. A doctor is obsessed with cutting up a body in just the right manner, a physicist to experience the state of nothingness, a woman to grasp the essence of pain, and a painter to fuse with the object she is painting. By a Danish writer.
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On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) by Solvej Balle EN
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In the marvelous third installment of Balle's "astonishing" (The Washington Post) septology, Tara's November 18th transforms when she discovers that she is no longer alone in her endless autumnal day. For she has met someone who remembers, and who knows as well as she does that "it is autumn, but that we're not heading into winter. That spring and summer will not follow. That the reds and yellows of the trees are here to stay. That yesterday doesn't mean the seventeenth of November, that tomorrow means the eighteenth, and that the nineteenth is a day we may never see." Where Book I and II focu... continue
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On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV) by Solvej Balle EN
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We're a little more than halfway through Balle's hypnotic, monumental seven-volume novel about a woman set adrift within the walls of November 18th. Balle's riveting project continues to wring ever more fascinating dimensions from time and its hapless, mortal captives. In Book III we saw the addition of a handful of new characters to Tara's world--fellow travelers within November 18th--and now Book IV heralds the arrival of many others, and soon to be even more, roaming uncertainly through the same November day. Could this be the first stirrings of an alternate civilization? The big house in B... continue
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The Axe : The Master of Hestviken, Vol. 1 by Sigrid Undset EN
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Olav and Ingunn grow up as brother and sister in Norway during the 13th century.
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La Visita de Osito by Else Holmelund Minarik ES
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“La visita de Osito” narra el día en que el pequeño protagonista de esta serie va a ver a Abuela Oso y Abuelo Oso, con quienes disfruta escuchando sus historias. El tono coloquial y la espontaneidad de los diálogos, la inocencia y los buenos modales por parte de Osito, junto con la complicidad de los abuelos, son aspectos esenciales en el texto, que transmite ternura y empatía. Los cuentos que Abuela Oso y Abuelo Oso le cuentan a Osito se presentan como relatos independientes, que se suman al capítulo de introducción y al simpático desenlace de la visita. La habilidad narrativa de Else Holmelu... continue
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La amiga de Osito by Else Holmelund Minarik ES
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A finales de los años 50 del siglo pasado, Else Holmelund Minarik y Maurice Sendak comenzaron a publicar los títulos de una serie que, casi 60 años después, sigue conservando el encanto y la ternura de los cuentos de antaño, reforzados por el estilo de los antiguos grabados, aderezados con suaves pátinas de color. “La amiga de Osito” cuenta la ilusión que este entrañable personaje humanizado experimenta al conocer a Emilia, con quien comparte paseos, charlas y fiestas con otros habitantes del bosque, hasta el momento de tristeza en que tienen que separarse al final del verano.