Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (1776)
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Motherfield : Poems and Belarusian Protest Diary by Julia Cimafiejeva EN
BelarusDescription:
A poetry collection where personal is inevitably political and ecological, Motherfield is a poet's insistence on self-determination in authoritarian, patriarchal Belarus. Julia Cimafiejeva was born in an area of rural Belarus that became a Chernobyl zone when she was a child. The book opens with a poet's diary that records the course of violence unfolding in Belarus since the 2020 presidential election. It paints an intimate portrait of the poet's struggle with fear, despair, and guilt as she goes to protests, escapes police, longs for readership, learns about the detention of family and frien... continue
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Cruces rojas by Sasha Filipenko ES
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Un joven llamado Alexander se muda a un apartamento en Minsk. Llega con una tragedia a sus espaldas y ninguna intención de hacer nuevos amigos. Pero Tatiana Alekséievna, su vecina nonagenaria, insistirá en compartir con él sus recuerdos antes de que el alzhéimer los borre por completo. Como mecanógrafa del ministerio del interior ruso durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Tatiana tuvo a su cargo la comunicación con Cruz Roja Internacional sobre de los soldados apresados por el bando enemigo; entre ellos, su marido. Después pasaría a&n... continue
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Paranoia : A Novel by Victor Martinovich EN
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Banned in Belarus two days after it was published, Paranoia is a thriller, a love story, and a harrowing journey into one of the world's last closed societies. The book never mentions Belarus or its capital, Minsk, but the setting is unmistakable.
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Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler's Bunker by Elena Rzhevskaya EN
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"By the will of fate I came to play a part in not letting Hitler achieve his final goal of disappearing and turning into a myth I managed to prevent Stalins dark and murky ambition from taking root his desire to hide from the world that we had found Hitlers corpse" - Elena Rzhevskaya"A telling reminder of the jealousy and rivalries that split the Allies even in their hour of victory, and foreshadowed the Cold War"- Tom Parfitt, The GuardianOn May 2,1945, Red Army soldiers broke into Hitlers bunker. Rzhevskaya, a young military interpreter, was with them. Almost accidentally the Soviet military... continue
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Alindarka’s Children by Alhierd Bacharevič EN
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Alicia and her brother Avi are interned in a camp where children are taught to forget their mother tongue and speak the language of the coloniser. They escape into the Belarusian forest to go on an adult Hansel and Gretel adventure.
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Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar EN
BelgiumDescription:
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era.
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth : The Belgica's Journey Into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton EN
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing” (The New York Times) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter “The energy of the narrative never flags. . . . Sancton has produced a thriller.”—The Wall Street Journal In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end of the earth: the icy continent of... continue
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Nadat Vanilla en haar vriend een grote diamant hebben gestolen en weer zijn kwijtgeraakt, begint een doldwaze en spannende zoektocht. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
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La cage de verre by Georges Simenon FR
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Le bruit saccadé de la machine à écrire le réveilla et il vit, comme d'habitude, les draps pâles du lit de sa femme de l'autre côté de la table de nuit. Qui avait décidé qu'il y aurait des lits jumeaux ? Après dix-huit ans, il n'aurait pu le dire avec certitude. D'ailleurs, les événements de cette époque-là étaient confus et, pour des raisons qu'il n'essayait pas de démêler, il préférait les chasser de sa mémoire. C'était probablement elle. Et il n'avait pas protesté. Il ne protestait jamais. En définitive, il ne leur était pas arrivé une seule fois de dormir ensemble.