English books from Belgium
Recommended English books written by authors from Belgium (19)
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If you speak English here are some English books from Belgium for the next part of the "Read Around The World Challenge".
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The Convert by Stefan Hertmans EN
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Finalist for the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards In this dazzling work of historical fiction, the Man Booker International–long-listed author of War and Turpentine reconstructs the tragic story of a medieval noblewoman who leaves her home and family for the love of a Jewish boy. In eleventh-century France, Vigdis Adelaïs, a young woman from a prosperous Christian family, falls in love with David Todros, a rabbi’s son and yeshiva student. To be together, the couple must flee their city, and Vigdis must renounce her life of privilege and comfort. Pursued by her father’s knights and in constant ... continue
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Revenge is a dish best eaten cold. This phenomenal Flemish international bestseller tells of a young woman's return to the small town where she suffered as a child and the payback she demands there.
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The Misfortunates : A Novel by Dimitri Verhulst EN
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Following in his father and uncle's footsteps down the path of inebriation, Dimmy, who has grown up amid the stench of stale beer, decides to embrace sobriety and moderation as he starts to piece together his own plan for the future. 30,000 first printing.
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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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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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War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans EN
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Shortly before his death in 1981, Stefan Hertmans' grandfather gave him a couple of filled exercise books. Stories he'd heard as a child had led Hertmans to suspect that their contents might be disturbing, and for years he didn’t dare to open them. When he finally did, he discovered unexpected secrets. His grandfather’s life was marked by years of childhood poverty in late-nineteenth-century Belgium, by horrific experiences on the frontlines during the First World War and by the loss of the young love of his life. He sublimated his grief in the silence of painting. Drawing on these diary entri... continue