Popular European Dystopia Books
Find dystopia books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (43)
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Last One at the Party by Bethany Clift EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
November 2022. The human race has been wiped out by a virus called 6DM. The end of the world, if you will. This is the journal of a Londoner, in her mid-thirties. She owns her own flat, has married her long-term boyfriend James and has a sensible job and the kind of life that she knows is expected of her. Like so many women she has learnt to make small compromises to herself in order to fit in. Things are fine. But in November 2022 that changes. A deadly virus has led to a global pandemic. It's pretty much the end of the world. And somehow our narrator finds herself immune to the disease that ... continue
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Memory of Water : A Novel by Emmi Itäranta EN
FinlandDescription:
An amazing, award-winning speculative fiction debut novel by a major new talent, in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin. Global warming has changed the world’s geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the power state of New Qian. In this far north place, seventeen-year-old Noria Kaitio is learning to become a tea master like her father, a position that holds great responsibility and great secrets. Tea masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria’s father te... continue
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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is unquestionably the most famous dystopian novel of all times. Written in the year of 1948, the author swapped the last two digits while describing a future totalitarian society where the minds, attitudes and actions of the subjects are thoroughly scrutinized by the "Thought Police", suspected dissidents tracked down and where the worship of the mythical party leader Big Brother is forced upon the masses. The low-ranking party member Winston Smith begins secretly to question the whole system and initiates a forbidden love affair with another party member.
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Country: Europe / 
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
A história de Josef K. atravessa os anos sem perder nada do seu vigor. Ao contrário, a banalização da violência irracional no século XX acrescentou a ela o fascínio dos romances realistas. Na sua luta para descobrir por que o acusam, por quem é acusado e que lei ampara a acusação, K. defronta permanentemente com a impossibilidade de escolher um caminho que lhe pareça sensato ou lógico, pois o processo de que é vítima segue leis próprias: as leis do arbítrio.
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Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
În ziua arestării sale, K. deschide uşa camerei lui pentru a afla ce se întâmplă cu micul dejun şi declanşează astfel un val de întâmplări care se sprijină, de-a lungul întregului roman, pe metafora uşii. Acuzat de o greşeală pe care nu o cunoaşte, de nişte judecători cu care nu se întâlneşte niciodată, conform unor legi despre care nimeni nu ştie nimic, el va deschide nenumărate uşi în încercarea de a lămuri această situaţie. "Procesul", piesă de referinţă în opera acestui geniu al absurdului care a fost Kafka, renunţ... continue
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IrelandDescription:
'IF THERE WAS EVER A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES, IT'S PAUL LYNCH'S PROPHET SONG... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVER The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish... continue
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Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Copyright page.
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PortugalDescription:
Four years after a bizarre blindness plague hits the capital, the political arena is thrown into turmoil when election day is marked by an unprecedented turnout of blank ballots and rebellious acts that prompt a state of emergency declaration. By the Nobel Prize for Literature-winning author of Blindness. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.
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Sulphuric Acid by Amélie Nothomb EN
BelgiumDescription:
Tells the fictional story of a reality TV death camp show which becomes an obsession with the French public, and how it is played out in the media.
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Termush (Faber Editions) : Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer by Sven Holm EN
DenmarkDescription:
Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic 1967 dystopia ...