Books from Austria
58 popular austrian 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 Austria.
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 Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler EN
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'Set at a time of lengthening shadows, this is a novel about the sparks that illuminate the dark: of wisdom, compassion, defiance and courage. It is wry, piercing and also, fittingly, radiant.' Daily MailWhen seventeen-year-old Franz exchanges his home in the idyllic beauty of the Austrian lake district for the bustle of Vienna, his homesickness quickly dissolves amidst the thrum of the city. In his role as apprentice to the elderly tobacconist Otto Trsnyek, he will soon be supplying the great and good of Vienna with their newspapers and cigarettes. Among the regulars is a Professor Freud, who... continue
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The Wall by Marlen Haushofer EN
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A middle-aged woman awakens to find she is the last living person on Earth after a nuclear apocalypse, and, accompanied by her dog, begins the process of survival and self-renewal.
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The Weight of Things by Marianne Fritz EN
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“A harrowing book about the horrors of motherhood, jealousy, and war trauma.” —Kirkus Reviews The Weight of Things is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only translatable book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948–2007). For after winning acclaim with this novel—awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978—she embarked on a 10,000-page literary project called “The Fortress,” creating over her lifetime elaborate colorful diagrams and typescripts so complicated that her publisher had to print them straight from her original documents. A project as brilliant as it is amb... continue
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The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography by Stefan Zweig EN
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Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries. In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that "was loaded down with a burden of fate as was hardly any other in the course of history." Zweig attracted to himself the best minds and loftiest souls of his era: Freud, Yeats, Borgese, Pirandello, Gorky, Ravel, Joyce, Toscanini, Jane Addams, Anatole... continue
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To Hell and Back : An Autobiography by Niki Lauda EN
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Niki Lauda drove a car for sport, but crossed the line between life and death and fought back to even greater glory. Even people who know nothing of Formula One have heard of his crash at Nurburgring in 1976, when we was dragged from the inferno of his Ferrari so badly injured he was given the last rites. Within 33 days, he was racing again at Monza. His wounds bled, he had no eyelids. He was terrified. A year later, he reclaimed his World Championship title. In To Hell and Back he reveals how he battled fear to stage a comeback that seemed beyond human endurance. Then it's Lauda vs Hunt, an e... continue
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Toda una vida by Robert Seethaler ES
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Hasta una perdida aldea centroeuropea, en un remoto rincn̤ alpino, llega a principios del siglo XX el pequeǫ Andreas Egger con apenas cuatro aǫs, abandonado por su madre. El niǫ crece sometido a la fřrea disciplina de su to̕, y su horizonte se agota en la cadena de enormes montaąs que rodean el valle. As,̕ entre esas cimas, la vida de Andreas discurre entre la rudeza del entorno y una forzosa adaptacin̤ a los cambios que impone el progreso. Una fb̀ula sobre el sentido y el sinsentido de la existencia. Las pulsiones bs̀icas del ser humano, la generosidad y el egos̕mo, el amor y la muerte, son l... continue
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Yellow Street : A Novel in Five Scenes by Veza Canetti EN
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Ironically depicts the lives of leather-merchants in the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna and the despair, poverty, and declining moral values of the 1930s.