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Best books from Europe (1575)
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Down Among the Fishes by Natalka Babina EN

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Country: Europe / Belarus flag Belarus
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A crime story with elements of magic realism, 'Down among fishes' revolves around the story of Alka, a woman whose unfulfilled desire to have a child turns her into an alcoholic and drug addict. In her search for the roots of a family tragedy, Alka stumbles on family records that set her off on a treasure hunt ...


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Sergeant Bertrand by Aleksandr Skorobogatov NL

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Country: Europe / Belarus flag Belarus
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Zijn vrouw staat avond na avond op het toneel. Het publiek gaapt haar smachtend aan, de gluiperige regisseur dringt zich achter de coulissen op – het is geen wonder dat Nikolaj geteisterd wordt door een allesverslindende jaloezie. Zijn trouwe raadgever, de mysterieuze Sergeant Bertrand, toont hem een uitvlucht uit zijn voortdurende zorgen. Nikolaj blijkt algauw in staat tot daden die hij eerder niet voor mogelijk hield. In Sergeant Bertrand weeft de auteur een web van intriges en dringt hij door tot de kern van de menselijke zelfbescherming. Wat is waarheid, en wat verzinnen we voor o... continue
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Motherfield : Poems and Belarusian Protest Diary by Julia Cimafiejeva EN

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Country: Europe / Belarus flag Belarus
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A poetry collection where personal is inevitably political and ecological, Motherfield is a poet's insistence on self-determination in authoritarian, patriarchal Belarus. Julia Cimafiejeva was born in an area of rural Belarus that became a Chernobyl zone when she was a child. The book opens with a poet's diary that records the course of violence unfolding in Belarus since the 2020 presidential election. It paints an intimate portrait of the poet's struggle with fear, despair, and guilt as she goes to protests, escapes police, longs for readership, learns about the detention of family and frien... continue

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Cruces rojas by Sasha Filipenko ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Belarus flag Belarus
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Un joven llamado Alexander se muda a un apartamento en Minsk. Llega con una tragedia a sus espaldas y ninguna intención de hacer nuevos amigos. Pero Tatiana Alekséievna, su vecina nonagenaria, insistirá en compartir con él sus recuerdos antes de que el alzhéimer los borre por completo. Como mecanógrafa del ministerio del interior ruso durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Tatiana tuvo a su cargo la comunicación con Cruz Roja Internacional sobre de los soldados apresados por el bando enemigo; entre ellos, su marido. Después pasaría a&n... continue

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Paranoia : A Novel by Victor Martinovich EN

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Country: Europe / Belarus flag Belarus
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Banned in Belarus two days after it was published, Paranoia is a thriller, a love story, and a harrowing journey into one of the world's last closed societies. The book never mentions Belarus or its capital, Minsk, but the setting is unmistakable.

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Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler's Bunker by Elena Rzhevskaya EN

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Country: Europe / Belarus flag Belarus
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"By the will of fate I came to play a part in not letting Hitler achieve his final goal of disappearing and turning into a myth I managed to prevent Stalins dark and murky ambition from taking root his desire to hide from the world that we had found Hitlers corpse" - Elena Rzhevskaya"A telling reminder of the jealousy and rivalries that split the Allies even in their hour of victory, and foreshadowed the Cold War"- Tom Parfitt, The GuardianOn May 2,1945, Red Army soldiers broke into Hitlers bunker. Rzhevskaya, a young military interpreter, was with them. Almost accidentally the Soviet military... continue


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Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
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Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era.

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Madhouse at the End of the Earth : The Belgica's Journey Into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing” (The New York Times) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter “The energy of the narrative never flags. . . . Sancton has produced a thriller.”—The Wall Street Journal In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end of the earth: the icy continent of... continue