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 Spain.
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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Espelho partido by Mercè Rodoreda
PT
Description:
Em "Espelho Partido", a escritora catalã faz um romance de personagens aparentemente comuns, mas com o peso de nostalgia que carregam todos aqueles que vivem com intensidade. Não são bons nem maus: como as pessoas que passam ao nosso lado todo dia da semana. E têm seus segredos. O cenário dessa trama é Barcelona. Lá vive a família Valldaura, de quem o leitor vai se tornando íntimo ao ouvir os cochichos das criadas: há uma moça que se suicida em Viena, um filho em segredo, uma amante cançonetista, uma f... continue
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Ética marica : proclamas libertarias para una militancia LGTBQ by Francisco Javier Vidarte
ES
Description:
Esto no es un libro. Es un interruptor. Un dispositivo que corta la corriente. Y que a la vez permite que algo se ponga en marcha, que algo se encienda. Al autor le gustaría que la lectura de este libro supusiera un 'clic', un chispazo que interrumpiera una cadencia de mierda, una bajada de tensión en el movimiento LGTBQ que debe terminar cuanto antes. Y que se encendiera otra forma de hacer las cosas y de comportarnos como maricas, lesbianas y trans frente a la sociedad y las propias tendencias involucionistas. Si esto no pasa, continúa el autor, este libro no h... continue
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Fog : A Novel by Miguel de Unamuno
EN
Description:
Fog is a fresh new translation of the Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno’s Niebla, first published in 1914. An early example of modernism’s challenge to the conventions of nineteenth-century realist fiction, Fog shocked critics but delighted readers with its formal experimentation and existential themes. This revolutionary novel anticipates the work of Sartre, Borges, Pirandello, Nabokov, Calvino, and Vonnegut. The novel’s central character, Augusto, is a pampered, aimless young man who falls in love with Eugenia, a woman he randomly spots on the street. Augusto’s absurd infatuation offers an ir... continue
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Four by Four by Sara Mesa
EN
Description:
"In Four by Four, Mesa's sentences are clear as glass, but when you look through you will be terrified by what you see."--Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel Set entirely at Wybrany College--a school where the wealthy keep their kids safe from the chaos erupting in the cities--Four by Four is a novel of insinuation and gossip, in which the truth about Wybrany's "program" is always palpable, but never explicit. The mysteries populating the novel open with the disappearance of one of the "special," scholarship students. As the first part unfolds, it becomes clear that all is not well i... continue
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Gypsy Ballads by Federico García Lorca
EN
Description:
Federico Garcia Lorca wrote the Gypsy Ballads between 1924 and 1927. When the book was published it caused a sensation in the literary world. Drawing on the traditional Spanish ballad form, Lorca described his Romancero Gitano as 'the poem of Andalucia...A book that hardly expresses visible Andalusia at all, but where hidden Andalucia trembles'. Seeking to relate the nature of his proud and troubled region of Spain, he drew on a traditional gypsy form; yet the homely, unpretentious style of these poems barely disguises the undercurrents of conflicted identity never far from Lorca's work. This ... continue
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Heredero by Costa Alcalá
ES
Description:
Antes de la Revolución había diez Familias, una para cada Poder.
Ahora solo quedan ocho.
Aura desapareció. De Dominio, la Familia Imperial, solo queda un mal recuerdo.
Casi veinte años después, los estudiantes del Liceo de la Guardia de Blyd se entrenan para proteger con su magia a una sociedad que hace años que vive en paz. Pero cuando la sombra de Dominio vuelve a sobrevolar el país, un grupo de estudiantes tendrá que enfrentarse a los secretos del pasado… sin revelar los suyos.