Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (2869)
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A Death in Malta : An assassination and a family’s quest for justice by Paul Caruana Galizia EN
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When Paul Caruana Galizia was at work in London, his eldest brother called to say their mother Daphne had just been assassinated. That day, he returned to their native Malta and, with his two brothers and their father, began a quest to discover who was responsible for Daphne's murder and who stood to profit from ending the life of a journalist whose courage and determination threatened the powerful with the truth. Two years later, they did. A Death in Malta is more than an investigation into the life and assassination of Daphne by her son Paul. It's an examination of the globalisation of corru... continue
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Palestine by Joe Sacco, Edward W. Said EN
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Based on years of research and extended visits to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, "Palestine" is the first major comics work of political nonfiction by Sacco.
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A Hundred Wayside Chapels of Malta & Gozo by Kilin EN
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The small churches of the Maltese Islands, which are such an essential feature of their urban and rural topography has stimulated greater interest in their preservation and continued existence.
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Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco EN
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"Sacco brings the conflict down to the most human level, allowing us to imagine our way inside it, to make the desperation he discovers, in some small way, our own."—Los Angeles Times Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, has long been a notorious flashpoint in the bitter Middle East conflict. Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinians shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killing, that day in Rafah—cold-blooded massacre or dreadful mistake—reveals the competing truths that have come to define an i... continue