Popular European Historical Fiction Books
Find historical fiction books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (413)
Albania292.
The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth EN
UkraineDescription:
The Emperor's Tomb is a nostalgic, haunting elegy for the end of youth and the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
293.
The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck EN
GermanyDescription:
Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a New Directions paperback
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The Evenings: A Winter’s Tale by Gerard Reve EN
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF A POSTWAR MASTERPIECE 'I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.' Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes - finds life absurd and inexplicable. He lives with his parents, who drive him mad. He has terrible, disturbing dreams of death and destruction. Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit. This is the story of ten evenings in Frits's life at the end of December, as he drinks, smokes, sees friends, aimlessly wanders the gloomy city street and tries... continue
295.
The Fall of the Stone City by Ismail Kadare EN
Description:
From the Man Booker International Prize winner comes a story of the great city of Gjirokaster and of a secret meeting that may have changed the face of Europe in the twentieth century
296.
The File on H. by Ismail Kadare EN
Description:
A political comedy on two American academics who are recording story-singers in Albania. The two are on a project to show that story-singers were the source of Homer's epics, but this is much too highbrow for the district governor, convinced the pair are spies. By an Albanian writer, author of The Concert.
297.
The Fires of Autumn by Irene Nemirovsky EN
Description:
This panoramic exploration of French life between the wars reads like a prequel to Irène Némirovsky’s international bestseller Suite Française. At the end of the First World War, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. Broken by the unspeakable horrors he has witnessed, he becomes addicted to the lure of wealth and success. He wallows in the corruption and excess of post-war Paris, but when his lover abandons him, Bernard turns to a childhood friend for comfort. For ten years, he lives the good bourgeois life, but when the drums of war begin to sound again, everything aroun... continue
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Sweden299.
The Ghost Cat : 12 Decades, 9 Lives, 1 Cat by Alex Howard EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.'The Ghost Cat is an Edinburgh delight: "mizzle-ridden" days were made for books like this!'LUCY RIBCHESTER, author of The Hourglass Factory'A beautiful story' Tiktok's @beansthegingercat'Enchanting, entertaining and engaging ...[Bokinfo].
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The Ghost Rider by Ismail Kadare EN
Description:
A classic medieval mystery from the Albanian master