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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Catherine the Great and the Small by Olja Knezevic, Ellen Elias-Bursac EN
Country: Europe / 
Montenegro
Montenegro
Description:
It's June in 1970s Montenegro; school's just let out and Catherine's head is full of Boney M lyrics and playing 'cops and robbers' with her summer crush. Then tragedy rips the heart from her little family and Catherine's life takes on a new trajectory.
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Catherine the Great and the Small by Olja Knezevic, Ellen Elias-Bursac EN
Country: Europe / Montenegro
Montenegro
Description:
It's June in 1970s Montenegro; school's just let out and Catherine's head is full of Boney M lyrics and playing 'cops and robbers' with her summer crush. Then tragedy rips the heart from her little family and Catherine's life takes on a new trajectory.
1483.
La boca llena de tierra by Branimir Scepanovic ES
Country: Europe / Montenegro
Montenegro
Description:
Brilliantly written by Serbian visionary Branimir Scepanovic, this novel tells the story of one man’s desperate attempt to return to his home country of Montenegro while being pursued by a group of strangers aiming to kill him. This anguishing journey is both metaphysical and symbolic, representing the relationships that exist between the individual and the collective and between perpetrators and victims. Fast-paced and gripping, this book explores the man’s innate desire to keep at least one of his rights: the right to die by his own hand. Brillantemente escrita por el visionario serbio Brani... continue
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The Apology and the Last Days : A Novel by Borislav Pekic EN
Country: Europe / Montenegro
Montenegro
Description:
Originally published in 1975, The Apology and the Last Days is the final volume in a trilogy of novels—also including The Rise and Fall of Icarus Gubelkian and How to Quiet a Vampire—about the aftermath of World War II, by Borislav Pekić, one of the former !--?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /--Yugoslavia’s most important postwar writers. The narrator tells his story from prison, where he is serving time for the murder of a former Nazi official. As the novel unfolds, we learn that the victim was the same person whom the narrator, while a lifeguard d... continue
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The Mountain Wreath by Petar II Petrović Njegoš EN
Country: Europe / Montenegro
Montenegro
Description:
The Mountain Wreath (Serbian: Gorski vijenac) is a poem and a play, a masterpiece of Serbian literature, written by Montenegrin Prince-Bishop and poet Petar II Petrovic-Njegos. Njegos wrote The Mountain Wreath during 1846 in Cetinje and published it the following year after the printing in an Armenian monastery in Vienna. It is a modern epic written in verse as a play, thus combining three of the major modes of literary expression. Set in 18th-century Montenegro, the poem deals with attempts of Njegos's ancestor Danilo to regulate relations among the region's warring tribes. Written as a serie... continue
1486.
Country: Europe / Montenegro
Montenegro
Description:
Building can be seen as a master metaphor for modernity, which some great irresistible force, be it Fascism or Communism or capitalism, is always busy rebuilding, and Houses is a book about a man, Arsénie Negovan, who has devoted his life and his dreams to building. Bon vivant, Francophile, visionary, Negovan spent the first half of his life building houses he loved and even named—Juliana, Christina, Agatha—while making his hometown of Belgrade into a modern city to be proud of. The second half of his life, after World War II and the Nazi occupation, he has spent in one of those houses, looked... continue
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An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941-43 by Etty Hillesum EN
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
A collection of the diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum (1914-43) who lived in Amsterdam that were composed in the shadow of the Holocaust, but their interest lies in the light-filled mind that pervades them and in the internal journey they chart.
1490.
Country: Europe / Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
"Originally published as Hex in 2013 by Luitingh-Sijthoff in Amsterdam"--Colophon.