Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Recommended Challenge Books (588)
61.
Death and the Dervish by Mesa Selminovic EN
Rating: 4 10 Votes
Country: Europe / 
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
Sheikh Nuruddin is a dervish at a Sarajevo monastery in the eighteenth century during the Turkish occupation. When his brother is arrested, he descends into the Kafkaesque world of the Turkish authorities in order to find out what has happened. As he does so, he begins to question his relations with society as a whole and, eventually, his life choices in general. Hugely successful when published in the 1960s, Death and the Dervish appears here in its first English translation.
62.
The Bridge Over the Drina by Ivo Andric EN
Rating: 4 25 Votes
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
63.
Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastašic EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
‘Two young women plunging into post-war Bosnia like two Alices into Wonderland . . . smart, energetic, passionate, announcing a major talent.’ - Aleksandar Hemon Sara hasn’t seen or heard from her childhood best friend, Lejla, in years. She’s comfortable with her life in Dublin, with her partner, their avocado plant, and their naturist neighbour. But when Lejla calls her and demands she come home to Bosnia, Sara finds that she can’t say no. What begins as a road trip becomes a journey through the past, as the two women set off to find Armin, Lejla’s brother who disappeared towards the end of t... continue
64.
Goodbye Sarajevo : A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival by Atka Reid, Hana Schofield EN
Rating: 3 1 Vote
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
A moving and compelling true story about two sisters fighting for survival in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war
65.
How The Soldier Repairs The Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic EN
Rating: 4.5 4 Votes
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
“A brilliant debut novel” about a young Bosnian War refugee who finds the secret to survival in language and stories (Los Angeles Times). For Aleksandar Krsmanović, Grandpa Slavko’s stories endow life in Višegrad with a kaleidoscopic brilliance. Neighbors, friends, and family past and present take on a mythic quality; the River Drina courses through town like the pulse of life itself. So when his grandfather dies suddenly, Aleksandar promises to carry on the tradition. But then soldiers invade Višegrad—a town previously unconscious of racial and religious divides—and it’s no longer important t... continue
66.
Where You Come From by Damion Searls, Sasa Stanisic EN
Rating: 4.5 2 Votes
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
In August, 1992, a boy and his mother flee the war in Yugoslavia and arrive in Germany. Six months later, the boy’s father joins them, bringing a brown suitcase, insomnia, and a scar on his thigh. Saša Stanišic’s Where You Come From is a novel about this family, whose world is uprooted and remade by war: their history, their life before the conflict, and the years that followed their escape as they created a new life in a new country. Blending autofiction, fable, and choose-your-own-adventure, Where You Come From is set in a village where only thirteen people remain, in lost and made-up memori... continue
67.
Zlata's Diary : A Child's Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipović EN
Rating: 3.5 13 Votes
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
Excerpts from the author's diary, begun when she was eleven, describes life in Sarajevo under siege
68.
Sarajevo Blues by Semezdin Mehmedinovic EN
0 Ratings
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
From one of Bosnia's most prominent poets and writers: spare and haunting stories and poems that were written under the horrific circumstances of the recent war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Semezdin Mehmedinovic remained a citizen of Sarajevo throughout...
69.
The Cat I Never Named by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
In Bihac, Bosnia, in 1992, sixteen-year-old Amra and her family face starvation and the threat of brutal ethnic violence as Serbs and Bosnians clash, while a stray cat, Maci, provides solace --
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