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Best books from Europe (2710)
31.

The Country Where No One Ever Dies by Ornela Vorpsi EN

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Country: Europe / Albania flag Albania
Description:
Victimized by dysfunctional family dynamics while struggling with the harsh realities of Albania's communist regime, a young girl endures everyday violence and the perpetual changing of her own identity, in an English translation of an award-winning first novel. Original.

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Agamemnon's Daughter : A Novella and Stories by Ismail Kadare EN

Rating: 2.5 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Albania flag Albania
Description:
In the title novella, a young man working for the state-controlled media agency experiences a vision of the ancient general Agamemnon, who warns him of the repercussions of his love affair with a high-ranking official's daughter, in a collection that also includes the short stories "The Blinding Order" and "The Great Wall."

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Abril despedaçado by Ismail Kadare PT

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Country: Europe / Albania flag Albania
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O jovem montanhês Gjorg Berisha dá um tiro de fuzil e "toma o sangue" de Zef Kryeqyq. É A quadragésima quinta morte de uma vendeta iniciada setenta anos antes, quando um desconhecido foi vítima de um Kryeqyq depois de ser acolhido pelo clã dos Berisha. A Matança entre as duas famílias é uma imposição do Kanun, código moral que há séculos é transmitido de boca em boca nas montanhas albanesas (assim como na região de Kossovo).COm rigor de antropólogo, Ismail Kadaré vai ao fundo dessa fantástica codificação do assassinato como direito e dever e extrai de lá toda a fúria das tragédias. TÃo minucio... continue

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The File on H. by Ismail Kadare EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Albania flag Albania
Description:
A political comedy on two American academics who are recording story-singers in Albania. The two are on a project to show that story-singers were the source of Homer's epics, but this is much too highbrow for the district governor, convinced the pair are spies. By an Albanian writer, author of The Concert.

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Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light : The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta by Mother Teresa, Brian Kolodiejchuk EN

Rating: 4.5 (6 votes)
Country: Europe / Albania flag Albania
Description:
This historic work reveals the inner spiritual life of one of the most beloved and important religious figures in history--Mother Teresa. During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her extraordinary contributions to the care of the sick, the dying, and thousands of others nobody else was prepared to look after has been recognized and acclaimed throughout the world. Little is known, however, about her own spiritual heights or her struggles. This collection of her writing and reflections, almost all of which have... continue

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Glimmer of Hope, Glimmer of Flame: a documentary novel by Ag Apolloni EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Albania flag Albania
Description:
A unique voice from Europe’s newest country, rooted in its oldest literary traditions – now in English for the first time. Glimmer of Hope, Glimmer of Flame is a documentary novel of the true tragedy of two mothers after the Kosovo War of 1999: one lost her whole family and continues to lay the table for them more than twenty years later; the other burned herself to death when the remains of two of her sons were returned. A mosaic of the evil fortunes of war and the painful consequences of peace, the novel echoes the eternal truths of ancient Greek tragedy as it tells the sorrows of modern war... continue

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La mariée était en rouge : roman by Anilda Ibrahimi FR

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Albania flag Albania
Description:
Au début du XXe siècle, dans un village isolé des montagnes albanaises, Saba est mariée de force pour solder une dette de sang. Longtemps après, elle et sa petite-fille Dora se décident à raconter leur histoire et celle de leurs proches. Des vies dominées par la violence, entre la loi clanique, les vengeances qui passent les générations et la brutalité policière du régime communiste. Inspirée par l'histoire de ses ancêtres, la romancière Anilda Ibrahimi retrace sur quatre générations, de la Seconde Guerre mondiale à la chute du Mur, les destins tourmentés de femmes en butte aux tradition.... continue

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The Teacher of Cheops by Albert Salvado EN

Rating: 3 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Andorra flag Andorra
Description:
This is the history of the time of Pharaoh Snefru and Queen Hetepheres, the parents of Cheops, who built the largest and most impressive pyramid of all. It is also the story of Sedum, a slave who became Cheops' teacher, the high priest Ramosi, and how the first pyramid came to be built. Sebekhotep, the great wise man of that time, said, "Everything is written in the stars. Most of us live our lives unaware of it. Some can read the stars and see their destiny. But very few people learn to write in the stars and change their destiny." Ramosi and Sedum learned to write in them and tried to change... continue

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The Phaeton Report by Albert Salvado EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Andorra flag Andorra
Description:
Winston Churchill said: the further we look into the past, the further we will see into the future. A famous writer knows in a party a man who tells her about USC (Universal Scientific Community), secret society created in times of Galileo Galilei that is dedicated to preserving the knowledge and the scientific truth against the attacks of the religions and official departments. In the middle of the feast the man mysteriously disappears and the writer discovers that nobody knows or has seen him. Surprised, the writer researches and locates a member of USC that gives him access to true and remo... continue