English books from Europe
Recommended English books (1916)
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If you speak English here are some English books from Europe for the next part of the "Read Around The World Challenge".
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Sulphuric Acid by Amélie Nothomb EN
BelgiumDescription:
Tells the fictional story of a reality TV death camp show which becomes an obsession with the French public, and how it is played out in the media.
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Summer Brother by Jaap Robben EN
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
In this honest, tender account of brotherly love, thirteen-year-old Brian is tasked with caring for his disabled older brother.
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Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night : A Novel by Jon Kalman Stefansson EN
IcelandDescription:
From the "Icelandic Dickens (Irish Examiner)," a writer who "shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy" (Times Literary Supplement), comes this profound and playful masterwork of literature--winner of the Icelandic Literature Prize and longlisted for France's Prix Medicis Étrangere--that ponders the beauty and mystery of life and our deepest existential questions. In small places, life becomes bigger. Sometimes distance from the world's tumult can open our hearts and our dreams. In a village of four hundred souls, the infinite light of an Icelandic summer makes its inhabitants want to e... continue
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Sunset by Jessie Cave EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
The story of two sisters - inseparable until a disastrous holiday leaves one sister heartbroken and alone. A comedy about love, grief and reconciliation.
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Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Grzegorzewska EN
PolandDescription:
A celebrated debut that animates the strange wonders of childhood in rural Poland, longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.
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Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy EN
Country: Europe / 
Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
The story of a fourteen-year-old girl living in a boarding school in postwar Switzerland.
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Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd by Jonas Jonasson EN
SwedenDescription:
"Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna. It doesn't occur to Victor that Kevin might be rescued and adopted by a Maasai medicine man, or that he might be expected to undergo the rituals expected of all new Maasai warriors - which have him running back to Stockholm as fast as you can say circumcision without anaesthetic. Back in Stockholm, Kevin's path crosses with Jenny's - and they have an awful lot to talk ab... continue
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Bosnia and Herzegovina1069.
Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski EN
Description:
Poland, 1980. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate university, has been sent along with the rest of his class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz - and together, they spend a dreamlike summer swimming in secluded lakes, reading forbidden books - and falling in love.
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Swimming in the Dark : A Novel by Tomasz Jedrowski EN
Description:
"When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, he is fascinated yet wary of this handsome, carefree stranger. But a chance meeting by the river soon becomes an intense, exhilarating, and all-consuming affair. After their camp duties are fulfilled, the pair spend a dreamlike few weeks camping in the countryside, bonding over an illicit copy of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. Inhabiting a beautiful natural world removed from society and its constraints, Ludwik and Janusz fall deeply in love. But in their repressive communist and Catholic society, the passion they sh... continue