Books from Belgium
129 popular belgian books
Travel the world without leaving your chair.
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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Los premios by Julio Cortázar ES
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Los pasajeros que se embarcan en el Malcolm para un crucero de placer se ven envueltos en un misterio que tiene tanto de alegórico como de disparate colosal. La ilusión de un corte con la vida anterior, propia de los viajes, incita a este grupo de hombres y mujeres a lanzarse a la exploración del enigma y al conocimiento mutuo. Y lo hacen con el aplicado entusiasmo de un juego, con la libertad y el riesgo que sólo Cortázar sabe concederle a sus personajes.
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Lost in the Fog: Memoir of a Bastard : A Belgian Recalls the War, the Nazis, Her Fractured Life by Rachel Van Meers, Daniel Chase EN
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The courageous story of Van Meers, born in a home for unwed mothers in Ghent, Belgium, 1930. It is told in her own words in a frank, humorous and down-to-earth manner. She grew up as a "bastard" during the Great Depression, and sees her family and country told apart by prejudice and politics in World War II, and recounts how she struggles to redefine herself in turbulent postwar Europe. Based on hundreds of hours of taped interviews, Rachel's view of a family "not-quite-normal," her amazing strength in the face of abusive and degrading treatment, and her strong faith and upbeat attitude make h... continue
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Loving Sabotage by Amélie Nothomb EN
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I lived everything daring those three years: heroism, glory, treachery, love, indifference, suffering, humiliation. It was China; I was seven years old." So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amelie Nothomb's critically acclaimed novel about a young girl who seems already stripped of illusions. The daughter of diplomats posted to Peking in the mid-seventies, she charges about the grim confines of the gated government enclave battling tirelessly against boredom, concocting a fantasy life as rich as her surroundings are bleak. During one of her tours of duty in a war that has broken out ... continue
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Luci nella notte by Georges Simenon IT
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Quarantacinque milioni di auto. Tante ne sono previste sulle strade americane in questo primo week-end di settembre. Come altre migliaia di newyorchesi, Steve e Nancy Hogan partono per il Maine, dove i loro due figli hanno trascorso le vacanze in un campeggio chiamato Walla Walla. Una coppia come tante, con una bella casa a Long Island e un più che discreto tenore di vita. Ma anche con la rabbiosa scontentezza di un amore logorato dai risentimenti. Né l’uno né l’altro sospettano che questa volta il ponte del Labor Day segnerà nella loro esistenza una svolta drammatica, e al tempo stesso, forse... continue
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Maigret and the Man on the Bench by Georges Simenon EN
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“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré Inspector Maigret must untangle the web of lies left behind by a murdered man whose family didn’t know him as well as they thought When a man is found stabbed to death in an alley off Boulevard Saint-Martin, his identity card shows a workplace that had gone out of business three years earlier. As far as his wife knew, he still worked there, and she insists that the shoes and a tie he was wearing when he was killed “couldn’t be his.” It soon becomes evident that although he had a source of income... continue
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Malpertuis by Jean Rey EN
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The prison-like edifice of a mysterious ancient townhouse and the gloom-laden landscape of Flanders form the backdrop to this intense, unrelenting, but beautifully crafted fantasy by Belgian author Jean Ray. What ghastly message is the slowly dying Cassave (played by Orson Welles in the screen adaptation) trying to bring us? MALPERTIUS is considered one of the greatest Gothic novels ever written.
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Matar al Padre by Amélie Nothomb ES
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Nothomb plunges us into the universe of magic through two figures: Norman Terence, a famous magician, and Joe Whip, a boy who turns up at his door looking for a mentor and finds an adoptive father. And, as dictated by the oedipal order of the title, a relationship will be established between father and son that vacillates between fascination and rivalry, heightened by the presence of the seductive Christina, the juggler. Is literature not also a form of magic, and the writer a generous conjurer who keeps the real suspended while the story is told? But magicians always hide more than just anoth... continue