Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (2605)
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Short listed for The An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2021.00His name was Joseph, but for years they had called him Panenka, a name that was his sadness and his story.0Panenka has spent 25 years living with the disastrous mistakes of his past, which have made him an exile in his home town and cost him his dearest relationships.0Now aged 50, Panenka begins to rebuild an improvised family life with his estranged daughter and her seven year old son. But at night, Panenka suffers crippling headaches that he calls his Iron Mask. Faced with losing everything, he meets Esther, a woman who has come to ... continue
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Atlas: the Story of Pa Salt by Lucinda Riley, Harry Whittaker EN
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The final novel in the Seven Sisters series is here. Spanning a lifetime of love and loss, crossing borders and oceans, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, co-authored by her son Harry Whittaker, draws Lucinda Riley's saga to its stunning, unforgettable conclusion.
1928, Paris. A boy is found, moments from death, and taken in by a kindly family. Gentle, precocious, talented, he flourishes in his new home, and the family show him a life he hadn’t dreamed possible. But he refuses to speak a word about who he really is.
As he grows into a young man, falling in love and taking classes at... continue
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The Master : retrato del novelista adulto by Colm Tóibín ES
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Colm Tóibín nació en Enniscorthy (Irlanda) en 1955 y, tras graduarse en Historia y Filología Inglesa en la University College Dublin, pasó largas temporadas en España que han tenido un fiel reflejo en su narrativa. Ha publicado una amplia obra periodística y de crítica literaria en Irish Independent, The Guardian y el Times Literary Supplement y actualmente escribe con regularidad para la London Review of Books, pero se dio a conocer al gran público con The Trial of the Generals (1990) y los libros de viajes Mala sangre: peregrinación a lo largo de la frontera irlandesa (1987) y La señal de la... continue
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Mala sangre : peregrinación a lo largo de la frontera irlandesa by Colm Tóibín ES
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En el verano posterior al Acuerdo Angloirlandés, cuando la tensión estaba en su punto máximo en Irlanda del Norte, Colm Toibn viajó a lo largo de la frontera irlandesa desde Derry a Newry. Bad Blood es un relato crudo y evocador de este viaje a través del miedo y el odio, y el legado de la historia en un paisaje desolado. Colm Toibn describe los rituales, las marchas, los funerales y las manifestaciones que observaron ambas comunidades a lo largo de la frontera, y escucha las historias que atormentan a ambos lados. Con simpatía y perspicacia, Bad Blood... continue
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TRES LUCES by Claire Keegan ES
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"En la Irlanda rural de principios de los ochenta, una niña es llevada a casa de unos parientes a pasar una temporada, hasta que su madre haya dado a luz al último de sus hermanitos. En casa de los Kinsella todo contrasta con su hogar: hay baño y no letrina, una máquina blanca a la que llaman freezer, e insisten en que allí no hay secretos. Pero ella no solo descubrirá uno, sino también que el dolor puede convertirse en ternura. Un libro sublime y sugerente sobre la cambiante línea entre el secreto y la vergüenza, sobre ese intersticio entre lo que debe ser dicho y lo que debe callarse." --Con... continue
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Sing, Wild Bird, Sing : A Novel by Jacqueline O EN
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A courageous woman journeys from nineteenth-century Ireland to the American West in a powerful novel about the indomitable will to survive--and to flourish--against nearly impossible odds. It's 1849 on the west coast of Ireland. Resilient Honora O'Donoghue is accustomed to fending for herself and to reading the language of the natural world. It was always said she'd been marked for something different, but it's not until she suffers devastating losses in a country gripped by the Famine that Honora begins to understand how that difference will save her. With the hope of a better life in America... continue
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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde EN
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The Importance of Being Earnest shows a full measure of Oscar Wilde's legendary wit, and embodies more than any of his other plays, his decency and warmth. This edition contains substantial excerpts from the original four-act version which was never produed, as well as the full test of the final three-act version, selections from Wilde's correspondence, and commentary by George Bernard Shaw, Max Beerbohm, St. John Hankin, and James Agate.