Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (2679)
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Set in Stone by Stela Brinzeanu EN
MoldovaDescription:
In medieval Moldova, two women from opposing backgrounds fall in love. But this is a world where a woman's role is defined by religion and class. To make a life together means defying their families, the law, and the Church. The closer they become, and the more they refuse the roles assigned to them, the more sacrifices they have to make. While Mira's rebellion puts her life in the gravest danger, Elina must fight to change her legal status to 'son' so she can inherit her father's land and change their destiny. Set in Stone delves into the past to uncover a story which is just as relevant toda... continue
Monaco
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Archipel des passions by Charlotte Casiraghi, Robert Maggiori FR
Description:
Une élève, un professeur, une rencontre, une infinité de discussions. Et l'idée est venue à Charlotte Casiraghi et Robert Maggiori de mettre par écrit ce qui germait de leurs dialogues, lesquels allaient souvent tous azimuts mais revenaient toujours à la question du sensible, de ce qui nous affecte, des frontières ou de l'absence de frontière entre les émotions, de leur logique, de leur confusion parfois. Il leur est alors apparu que tous nos états d'âme formaient un ensemble d'îlots solidaires, reliés par le courant magnétique du désir, qui tisse entre eux d'invisibles chaînes. C'est cet arch... continue
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Palace: My Life in the Royal Family of Monaco by Christian Louis de Massy EN
Description:
The nephew of Prince Rainier and Charles Higham, the bestselling author of The Duchess of Windsor, tell what really went on behind the glittering fairy tale walls of the palace. Brimming with scandal, romance, and treachery, this is a shocking memoir complete with candid photos.
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Catherine the Great and the Small by Olja Knezevic, Ellen Elias-Bursac EN
Country: Europe / 
Montenegro
Montenegro
Description:
It's June in 1970s Montenegro; school's just let out and Catherine's head is full of Boney M lyrics and playing 'cops and robbers' with her summer crush. Then tragedy rips the heart from her little family and Catherine's life takes on a new trajectory.
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Catherine the Great and the Small by Olja Knezevic, Ellen Elias-Bursac EN
Country: Europe / Montenegro
Montenegro
Description:
It's June in 1970s Montenegro; school's just let out and Catherine's head is full of Boney M lyrics and playing 'cops and robbers' with her summer crush. Then tragedy rips the heart from her little family and Catherine's life takes on a new trajectory.
1388.
La boca llena de tierra by Branimir Scepanovic ES
Country: Europe / Montenegro
Montenegro
Description:
Brilliantly written by Serbian visionary Branimir Scepanovic, this novel tells the story of one man’s desperate attempt to return to his home country of Montenegro while being pursued by a group of strangers aiming to kill him. This anguishing journey is both metaphysical and symbolic, representing the relationships that exist between the individual and the collective and between perpetrators and victims. Fast-paced and gripping, this book explores the man’s innate desire to keep at least one of his rights: the right to die by his own hand. Brillantemente escrita por el visionario serbio Brani... continue
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The Apology and the Last Days : A Novel by Borislav Pekic EN
Country: Europe / Montenegro
Montenegro
Description:
Originally published in 1975, The Apology and the Last Days is the final volume in a trilogy of novels—also including The Rise and Fall of Icarus Gubelkian and How to Quiet a Vampire—about the aftermath of World War II, by Borislav Pekić, one of the former !--?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /--Yugoslavia’s most important postwar writers. The narrator tells his story from prison, where he is serving time for the murder of a former Nazi official. As the novel unfolds, we learn that the victim was the same person whom the narrator, while a lifeguard d... continue
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The Mountain Wreath by Petar II Petrović Njegoš EN
Country: Europe / Montenegro
Montenegro
Description:
The Mountain Wreath (Serbian: Gorski vijenac) is a poem and a play, a masterpiece of Serbian literature, written by Montenegrin Prince-Bishop and poet Petar II Petrovic-Njegos. Njegos wrote The Mountain Wreath during 1846 in Cetinje and published it the following year after the printing in an Armenian monastery in Vienna. It is a modern epic written in verse as a play, thus combining three of the major modes of literary expression. Set in 18th-century Montenegro, the poem deals with attempts of Njegos's ancestor Danilo to regulate relations among the region's warring tribes. Written as a serie... continue