Books from Belgium
129 popular belgian books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Belgium.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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The Other Jerusalem by Michel Kichka EN
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Michel Kichka's newest autobiography tells how a comics-obsessed kid from industrial Belgium became an author and militant media illustrator from Israel. As he shows in the book, the Covid pandemic and resulting lockdown were fertile breeding ground for the creative energy Kichka needed for this intimate and funny traipse around Jerusalem -- and down memory lane.
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The Shadow Puppet by Georges Simenon EN
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“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian A gripping domestic tragedy starring Inspector Maigret and set in Simenon’s very own neighborhood “One by one the lighted windows went dark. The silhouette of the dead man could still be seen through the frosted glass like a Chinese shadow puppet. A taxi pulled up. It wasn't the public prosecutor yet. A young woman crossed the courtyard with hurried steps, leaving a whiff of perfume... continue
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The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus, Arnold J. Pomerans EN
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A classic novel in the tradition of The Tin Drum, The Sorrow of Belgium is a searing, scathingly funny portrait of a wartime Belgium and one boy's coming of age -- emotionally, sexually, and politically. In 1939, Louis Seynaeve, a ten-year-old Flemish student, is chiefly occupled with schoolboy adventures and lurid adolescent fantasies. Then the Nazis invade Belgium, and he grows up fast. Bewildered by his family -- a stuffy father who actually welcomes the occupation and a flirtatious mother who works for (and plays with) the Germans -- he is seemingly at the center of so much he can't unders... continue
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The Venice Train by Georges Simenon EN
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'There were some weeks that were painful, nerve-racking. At the office or at home, in the middle of a meal, he would suddenly find his forehead bathed in sweat, a tightness in his chest, and at those times, feeling everyone's eyes on him was unbearable.' When an unusually inquisitive stranger strikes up conversation with Justin Calmar on the train home from a family holiday, his sun-drenched memories are overshadowed by an event that will change his life forever. As he travels alone through northern Italy and Switzerland, his carefully constructed life as an upright citizen begins to unravel, ... continue
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Thirty Days by Annelies Verbeke EN
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A novel about goodness and compassion, the book finds the perfect balance between sensitivity and humor, hopefulness and criticism, cheer and despair.
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Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot EN
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Documents the lives of missionaries who sought to convert the Huao Indians of Ecuador.
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Tintin in the Land of the Soviets by Hergé EN
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Tintin is a reporter sent to the Soviet Union to give a weekly report of his adventures.
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Hunter White leeft voor de jacht op groot wild: in die ultieme krachtmeting met de natuur voelt hij dat hij leeft. Maar als hij naar Afrika vertrekt om een neushoorn te schieten, de laatste van de Big Five die hem nog ontbreekt, geeft het lot de jacht een andere wending. Zijn droom verandert algauw in een nachtmerrie die hem steeds dichter bij de duisternis in zijn eigen hart brengt. Is er nog een weg terug?0Trofeejacht brengt geld in het laatje voor natuurbehoud, en is dus dé manier om met uitsterven bedreigde dieren te beschermen, stellen jagers: het opofferen van een individu garandeert het... continue