Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (1700)
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Miranda van Frituur Miranda by Erik Vlaminck NL
BelgiumDescription:
Het wel en wee van enkele Vlaamse kermisuitbaters. Vervolg op 'Suikerspin'.
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Thirty Days by Annelies Verbeke EN
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A novel about goodness and compassion, the book finds the perfect balance between sensitivity and humor, hopefulness and criticism, cheer and despair.
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Cosmétique de l'ennemi by Amélie Nothomb FR
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Sans le vouloir, j'avais commis le crime parfait : personne ne m'avait vu venir, à part la victime. La preuve, c'est que je suis toujours en liberté. C'est dans le hall d'un aéroport que tout a commencé. Il savait que ce serait lui. La victime parfaite. Le coupable désigné d'avance. Il lui a suffi de parler. Et d'attendre que le piège se referme. C'est dans le hall d'un aéroport que tout s'est terminé. De toute façon, le hasard n'existe pas.
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Tintin in the Land of the Soviets by Hergé EN
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Tintin is a reporter sent to the Soviet Union to give a weekly report of his adventures.
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Maigret and the Man on the Bench by Georges Simenon EN
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“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian Inspector Maigret must untangle the web of lies left behind by a murdered man whose family didn’t know him as well as they thought When a man is found stabbed to death in an alley off Boulevard Saint-Martin, his identity card shows a workplace that had gone out of business three years earlier. As far as his wife knew, he still worked there, and she insists that the shoes and a tie h... continue
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La même année qu'Eva sont nés deux garçons dans le petit village flamand de Bovenmeer. Les "trois mousquetaires" sont inséparables, mais à l'adolescence leurs rapports se fissurent. Un été de canicule, les deux garçons conçoivent un plan : faire se déshabiller devant eux les plus jolies filles du village, et plus si possible. Pour cela, ils imaginent un stratagème : la candidate devra résoudre une énigme en posant des questions ; à chaque erreur, elle devra enlever un de ses vêtements. Eva doit fournir l’énigme et servir d’arbitre si elle veut rester dans le groupe. Elle accepte, sans savoir e... continue
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I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman EN
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Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world. Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus? Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be t... continue