Popular European Short Story Books
Find short story books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (66)
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I'd Like to Say Sorry, But There's No One to Say Sorry To : Stories by Mikolaj Grynberg EN
PolandDescription:
An exquisitely original collection of darkly funny stories that explore the panorama of Jewish experience in contemporary Poland, from a world-class contemporary writer "These small, searing prose pieces are moving and unsettling at the same time. If the diagnosis they present is right, then we have a great problem in Poland." --Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize laureate and author of Flights Mikołaj Grynberg is a psychologist and photographer who has been collecting and publishing oral histories of Polish Jews. In his first work of fiction--a book that has been widely praised by critics and was sho... continue
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Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino EN
ItalyDescription:
In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with tales of countless cities past, present, and future.
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Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue EN
IrelandDescription:
Fairytales with a twist from the Man Booker and Orange prize-shortlisted author of Room. In Kissing the Witch, Emma Donoghue unwinds thirteen fairy tales and writes them anew: Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother, Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very different from the face she sees in the mirror, and Snow White is awakened from slumber by the bittersweet fruit of an unnamed desire. In these stories, Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances – sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous.... continue
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Knots : Stories by Gunnhild Øyehaug EN
NorwayDescription:
A mesmerizing collection of playfully surreal stories from one of Norway’s most celebrated writers First published in Norway in 2004, Knots is Gunnhild Øyehaug’s radical collection of short stories that range from the surreal to the oddly mundane, and prod the discomforts of mental, sexual, and familial bonds. In both precise short-shorts and ruminative longer tales, Øyehaug meanders through the tangled, jinxed, and unavoidable conflicts of love and desire. From young Rimbaud’s thwarted passions to the scandalous disappearance of an entire family, these stories do the chilling work of tracing ... continue
Germany26.
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk : A Sketch by Nikolaĭ Semenovich Leskov EN
RussiaDescription:
In this powerful and brutal short story, Leskov demonstrates the enduring truth of the Shakespearean archetype joltingly displaced to the heartland of Russia. Chastened and stifled by her marriage of convenience to a man twice her age, the young Katerina Lvovna goes yawning about the house, missing the barefoot freedom of her childhood, until she meets the feckless steward Sergei Filipych. Sergei proceeds to seduce Katerina, as he has done half the women in the town, not realizing that her passion, once freed, will attach to him so fiercely that Katerina will do anything to keep hold of him. J... continue
Switzerland29.
Mars by Asja Bakić EN
Country: Europe / 
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
A debut story collection of darkly humorous, feminist speculative fiction from the former Eastern Bloc.
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Mei by Anna Enquist (pseud. van C. Widlund-Broer.) NL
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
A collection of short stories in Dutch by one of the best Dutch authors.