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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Confidential Reports by Immanuel Mifsud EN
MaltaDescription:
He writes mainly here about private experience, sometimes of loss, sometimes of love, sometimes of the erotic. His poems work by suggestion and allusion and they place human experience, even the most intimate or distressing, at the heart of an impersonal physical world which provides the sensual ground of our imagining of reality. He seems to want to recall the reader always to this human status as part of physical world which existed long before us, gave rise to us, and will see us disappear. The impersonality of this world is a foil to the personal nature of human life. By juxtaposing the tw... continue
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Moldavian Autumn by Ion Drutse EN
MoldovaDescription:
Ion Drutse was born in Moldavia, the son of a peasant. He graduated from a village school, worked on the staff of several Moldavian papers for some years, and then left for Moscow to continue his studies at the Higher Literary Courses. Ten years later, in 1967, Drutse was awarded the State Prize for Literature of the Moldavian SSR. Ion Drutze is the author of several collections of short stories, a novel, The Burden of Our Kindness, a play Casa Mare, and a short novel Georghe, the Widow?s Son. This edition of Drutse?s selected works is a cheerful book, though there is also an undertone of sadn... continue
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Terre des affranchis : roman by Liliana Lazar FR
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Victor ouvrit un cahier et prit sa plume. Sa main tremblait au moment d'écrire le premier mot du texte qu'il découvrait. D'un geste méthodique et lent, il traça de grosses lettres capitales sur la feuille. Le manuscrit dactylographié en roumain que Victor Luca s'apprête à recopier est un livre interdit car, en cette année 1972, Ceau5escu est au pouvoir et les temps sont à la répression. Pourquoi Victor écrit-il? Pour oublier l'odeur de la mandragore qui émane parfois des corps sans vie de jeunes filles ? Pour combler le vide des jours de solitude et d'enfermement ? En attendant la nuit et ses ... continue
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The Good Life Elsewhere by Vladimir Lorchenkov EN
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A scathing satire and a tragicomic look at the poorest - and drunkest - country in Europe.
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Der Garten aus Glas by Tatiana Țîbuleac DE
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Die junge Lastotschka ist hart im Nehmen. Voller Zielstrebigkeit und mit festem Willen hat sie sich hochgearbeitet, von der Flaschensammlerin zur Chefärztin. Doch ihre von Armut geprägte Kindheit im Moldawien der Achtziger- und Neunzigerjahre verfolgt sie immer noch. Warum musste sie so viele Jahre im Waisenhaus zubringen? Warum hat ihre ruppige Ziehmutter Tamara sie schließlich zu sich geholt und zum Flaschensammeln mitgenommen? Und was ist aus den Frauen in ihrer damaligen Nachbarschaft geworden, ohne die Lastotschka nicht die wäre, die sie heute ist? Gemeinsam mit der E... continue
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El Jardin de Vidrio by Tatiana Țîbuleac ES
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Reseña:Una novela iniciática sobre el trauma y la búsqueda de la identidad. Una lectura contundente, hechizante, cruel e inquietante que cuestiona la maternidad, el amor y los vínculos que nos unen con nuestro pasado.Moldavia en los años más grises del comunismo. La anciana Tamara Pavlovna rescata a la pequeña Lastotchka de un orfanato. Lo que en principio puede parecer un acto de piedad esconde una realidad terrorífica. Lastotchka ha sido comprada como esclava, para ser explotada durante casi una década recolectando botellas por la calle. Aprender. a sobrevivir robando y mendigando, rechazand... continue
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Kinderland by Liliana Corobca EN
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Kinderland unfolds through the letters of a young girl to her absent parents. Her dispatches go unanswered, but they relay to a reader lively tales of cruel pranks and jovial reconciliations, pain and tenderness, despair and hope as these young children grow up alone with sadness, and longing. With her parents gone in search of work, twelve-year-old Cristina must act as a mother to her two younger brothers. Through her eyes, we roam the streets of a contemporary Moldovan village populated almost entirely with children and old people. Just as most of the inhabitants left their countryside and h... continue
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All-Night Pharmacy : A Novel by Ruth Madievsky EN
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*A NATIONAL BESTSELLER* Rachel Kushner meets David Lynch in this fever dream of an LA novel about a young woman who commits a drunken act of violence just before her sister vanishes without a trace On the night of her high school graduation, a young woman follows her older sister Debbie to Salvation, a Los Angeles bar patronized by energy healers, aspiring actors, and all-around misfits. After the two share a bag of unidentified pills, the evening turns into a haze of sensual and risky interactions—nothing unusual for two sisters bound in an incredibly toxic relationship. Our unnamed narrator ... continue