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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Oorlog en oorlog by László Krasznahorkai NL
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De wat wereldvreemde Gyorgy Korin werkt bij een archief in een Hongaars provinciestadje. Op een dag vindt hij daar een merkwaardig manuscript. Het is onduidelijk wie het geschreven heeft en wanneer. Het vertelt het verhaal van vier mannen, die in de verschillende hoofdstukken, zonder chronologie of logica, in steeds andere periodes van de wereldgeschiedenis opduiken – van de Bronstijd op Minoïsch Kreta tot de Romeinse provincie Britannia, in Gibraltar ten tijde van Columbus – voortdurend op de vlucht voor oorlog en verwoesting.
Korin raakt gefascineerd door de teksten en be... continue
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Iza's Ballad by Magda Szabo EN
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From the author of The Door, selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2015 An NYRB Classics Original Like Magda Szabó’s internationally acclaimed novel The Door, Iza’s Ballad is a striking story of the relationship between two women, in this case a mother and a daughter. Ettie, the mother, is old and from an older world than the rapidly modernizing Communist Hungary of the years after World War II. From a poor family and without formal education, Ettie has devoted her life to the cause of her husband, Vince, a courageous magistrate who had been blacklisted for... continue
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Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer EN
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Set in post-war Hungary between 1944 and 1956, the story follows the lives of two young men and in particular their careers in a travelling basketball team. They spend most of their time in the avoidance of work and army service and in the pursuit of sex.
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Das Ungeheuer by Terézia Mora DE
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Für diese Erzählungen wurde sie mit dem Open-Mike-Literaturpreis, dem Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis (1999) und dem Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Förderpreis (2000) ausgezeichnet. 2004 erschien der Roman 'Alle Tage', der ausnahmslos von der Kritik gelobt wurde und grossen Anklang bei den Lesern fand. Für den Roman erhielt sie den Mara-Cassens-Preis für das beste Roman-Debüt des Jahres, den Kunstpreis Berlin, den LiteraTour-Nord-Preis und den Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse.
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De Katalinstraat by Magda Szabó NL
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Het verhaal van drie nauw met elkaar verbonden gezinnen die tot de Tweede Wereldoorlog naast elkaar in dezelfde straat woonden.
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A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by László Krasznahorkai EN
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A quiet, poetic, and exquisitely gorgeous novel describing a wandering mythic figure in a Kyoto monastery, by the 2019 National Book Award winner
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Budapest: Between East and West by Victor Sebestyen EN
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A ‘biography’ of Budapest, from it’s founding to the fall of the Iron Curtain.
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A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life by George Konrad EN
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Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Biography, Autobiography & Memoir A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe's leading intellectuals. When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed to flee to Budapest from the Hungarian countryside the day before deportations swept through his home town. Ultimately, they were the only Jewish children of the town to survive the Holocaust. A Guest in My Own Country recalls the life of one of Eastern Europe's most accomplished modern writers, beginning with h... continue
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