Books from Lithuania
14 popular lithuanian 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 Lithuania.
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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Those Whom I Would Like to Meet Again by Giedra Radvilaviciute EN
Description:
Ten stories on the border of fiction and essay, in which the experiences of life “are unrecognizably transformed, like the flour, eggs, nuts, and apples in a cake.” In ten of her best essay-stories, Giedra Radvilavičiute travels between the ridiculous and the sublime, the everyday and the extraordinary. In the place of plot, which the author claims to have had “shot and buried with the proper honors,” the reader finds a dense, subtly interwoven structure of memory and reality, banalities and fantasy, all served up with a good dollop of absurdity and humor. We travel from the old town of Vilniu... continue
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Vilnius : three short stories by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė EN
Description:
A journey across time and space. A journey into the soul, despair and the meaning of art. A young polish woman finds solace in art and the company of Wehrmacht troops in occupied Lithuania. The girl's school where she studies is opened by the influence of art to a wider world she is forced to inhabit and must learn to love.
An elderly KGB agent is confronted by an ideological past which crosses time to haunt his last days. Soviet Man is a long dead dream killed by the descendants of those oppressed because of art. Soviet monolith art and culture is once again overcome by the new past ove... continue
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Vilnius Poker by Ričardas Gavelis, Elizabeth Novickas EN
Description:
four different perspectives, and it captures the surreal horror of life under the Soviet yoke." --Book Jacket.
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Voy a traicionarte by Ruta sepetys ES
Description:
Ruta Sepetys, la mejor autora de novela histórica cross over, escribe un libro cautivador y deslumbrante sobre la libertad