Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (2674)
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Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin EN
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WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD, THE YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD & THE READ RUSSIA AWARD *A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016* Fifteenth-century Russia It is a time of plague and pestilence, and a young healer, skilled in the art of herbs and remedies, finds himself overcome with grief and guilt when he fails to save the one he holds closest to his heart. Leaving behind his village, his possessions and his name, he sets out on a quest for redemption, penniless and alone. But this is no ordinary journey: wandering across plague-ridden Europe, offering his healing powers to all in need, he travels thro... continue
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The Night Reporter : A 1938 Lviv Murder Mystery by Yuri Vynnychuk EN
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The events of the novel The Night Reporter take place in Lviv in 1938. Journalist Marko Krylovych, nicknamed the "night reporter" takes on the investigation of the murder of a candidate for president of the city government.
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Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex by Oksana Stefanivna Zabuz︠h︡ko EN
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Called "the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence," Oksana Zabuzhko's Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex became an international phenomenon when it shot to number one on the Ukrainian bestseller list and remained there throughout the 1990s. The novel is narrated in first-person streams of thought by a sharp-tongued poet with an irreverently honest voice. She is visiting professor of Slavic studies at Harvard and her exposure to American values and behaviors conspires with her yearning to break free from Ukrainian conventions. In her despair over a recently ended affair, she ... continue
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The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth EN
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Written through the stories of three generations of the Trotta family, The Radetzky March is a meditation on the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its eventual collapse. This is Joseph Roth's most famous and most acclaimed novel.
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O Nariz é o nome de um dos contos satíricos clássicos na literatura russa. Foi escrito pelo célebre escritor Nikolai Gogol e inspirou o compositor Dmitri Shostakovich a compor a ópera homônima. Escrita entre 1835 e 1836, a narrativa conta a história de um oficial de São Petersburgo cujo nariz abandona o rosto e decide ter vida independente. O Nariz, não trata de forças sobrenaturais, mas de uma manipulação estética da qual Gogol soube tirar proveito graças à sua genialidade como escritor.
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Clara's War : A Young Girl's True Story of Miraculous Survival Under the Nazis by Clara Kramer, Stephen Glantz EN
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On 21 July 1942 the Nazis invaded Poland. In the small town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, Clara and her family hid perilously in a hand-dug cellar. Living above and protecting them were the Becks. Mr Beck was a womaniser, a drunkard and a self-professed anti-Semite, yet he risked his life throughout the war to keep his charges safe. Nevertheless, life with Mr Beck was far from predictable. From the house catching fire, to Beck's affair with Clara's cousin, to the nightly SS dri... continue
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The Hard Parts : A Memoir of Courage and Triumph by Oksana Masters EN
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“A gut-wrenching, wildly inspiring story about overcoming the most daunting obstacles through steely tenacity, sheer will, and a great big dose of motherly love.” —Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle An inspirational and powerful memoir from the United States’s most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete, The Hard Parts is Oksana Masters’s gripping account of overcoming extraordinary Chernobyl disaster–caused physical challenges to create a life that challenges everyone to push through what is holding them back. Oksana Masters was born in Ukraine—i... continue
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Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexiévich EN
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardA journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they still live with. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time."