Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Recommended Challenge Books (588)
31.
Lena : unser Dorf und der Krieg by Käthe Recheis DE
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AustriaDescription:
Das Buch beschreibt wie das österreichische Mädchen Lena die Nazizeit erlebt.Es werden viele Themen angesprochen, z.B. der Anschluß Österreichs, der Holocaust, Euthanasie, Bombenangriffe, Hitlerjugend u.v.m.
32.
Lust by Elfriede Jelinek EN
Rating: 2 1 Vote
Description:
In post-World War II Austria, Gerti, a woman on the verge of a breakdown due to her husband's relentless sexual attentions, wanders away from home one day and is rescued by an ambitious young man who turns out to be much like her husband.
Genre
Feminism
Recommended: 04 Jan 2023
34.
The Case of the Lamp That Went Out by Auguste Groner EN
Description:
Reprint of the detective novel starring Joseph Müller, Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police.
35.
The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation by Rainer Maria Rilke EN
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Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann EN
Rating: 3.5 2 Votes
Description:
Here is the story of lives painfully intertwined. An unnamed narrator is haunted by nightmarish memories of her father and desperate for the attentions of her lover. Her only companion is the androgynous Malina with whom she lives, an initially remote and dispassionate man who ultimately becomes an ominous influence. Plunging towards its riveting finale, Malina lays bare the struggle for love and the limits of discourse between men and women.
Genre
Recommended: 16 Mar 2023
37.
Blackout : A Novel by Marc Elsberg EN
Description:
"Fast, tense, thrilling -- and timely: this will happen one day. Highly recommended." --Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series This is no accident. This is no act of God. This is Blackout. A terrifyingly plausible million-copy selling debut disaster thriller. When the lights go out one night, no one panics. Not yet. The lights always come back on soon, don't they? Surely it's a glitch, a storm, a malfunction. But something seems strange about this night. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electrical grids collapse. There is no power, anywhere. ... continue
Recommended: 31 Mar 2023
38.
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich EN
Rating: 4.6 8 Votes
BelarusDescription:
The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of stories from Soviet women who lived through the Second World War: on the front lines, on the home front, and in occupied territories. As Alexievich gives voice to women who are absent from official narratives - captains, sergeants, nurses, snipers, pilots - she shows us a new version of the war we're so familia... continue
39.
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexiévich EN
Rating: 3.7 8 Votes
Description:
The people of Chernobyl talk about their lives before, during, and after the worst nuclear reactor accident in history which occurred on April 26, 1986 in Chernobyl.
40.
Wave of Terror : A Novel by Theodore Odrach, Emma Odrach, T.F. Rigelhof EN
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Description:
This novel is a major literary discovery, and Odrach is drawing favorable comparisons with such eminent writers as Chekhov and Solzhenitsyn. Odrach wrote in Ukrainian, while living an exile's life in Toronto. This remarkable book is a microcosm of Soviet history, and Odrach provides a first-hand account of events during the Stalinist era that newsreels never covered. It has special value as a sensitive and realistic portrait of the times, while capturing the internal drama of the characters with psychological concision. Odrach creates a powerful and moving picture, and manages to show what lif... continue
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