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Best books from Europe (2885)
1951.

Sóniechka by Liudmila Ulitskaia ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
Sonia, una chica judía poco agraciada, confiere a los personajes de ficción la misma categoría que a las personas. En Sverdlovsk, donde trabaja en una biblioteca, conoce al pintor Víktorovich, que ha viajado mucho por Europa y cumplido varios años de reclusión en un campo de trabajo soviético. Siguen años de felicidad conyugal coronada con el nacimiento de la hija de ambos, Tania. El interés de Sóniechka hacia la literatura se desvanece; la familia, las labores de la casa, ocupan ahora su vida. Esa felicidad se verá truncada con la aparición de una amiga de Tania, Yasia, de la que Víktorovich ... continue


1953.

La Maleta by Sergueï Dovlátov ES

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
Al igual que la mayoría de las obras de Serguéi Dovlátov, La maleta está teñida de un fuerte componente autobiográfico, algo inevitable en un autor con una intensa vida marcada por las circunstancias históricas. El protagonista de la narración se ve obligado a hacer el equipaje para emprender un largo viaje de ida sin billete de vuelta. Mientras va introduciendo en una única maleta todos los objetos que le van a acompañar -muchos menos de los que se esperaba-, el narrador va recuperando episodios de su pasado, fragmentos de ... continue




1957.

Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
Cardinal rule #1 for surviving school: Don't get noticed by the mean kids. Cardinal rule #2 for surviving school: Seek out groups with similar interests and join them. On her first day at her new school, Penelope--Peppi--Torres reminds herself of these basics. But when she trips into a quiet boy in the hall, Jaime Thompson, she's already broken the first rule, and the mean kids start calling her the "nerder girlfriend." How does she handle this crisis? By shoving poor Jaime and running away! Falling back on rule two and surrounding herself with new friends in the art club, Peppi still can't he... continue


1959.

Nutcracker and Mouse King by E. T. A. Hoffmann EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
The original stories behind everyone's favorite Christmas ballet It wasn't until the 1950s that seeing The Nutcracker at Christmastime became an American tradition. But the story itself is much older and its original intent more complex. This eye-opening new volume presents two of the tale's earliest versions, both in new translations: E.T.A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker and Mouse King (1816), in which a young girl is whisked away to the Land of Toys to help her animated nutcracker defeat the Mouse King, and Alexandre Dumas's 1845 adaptation, The Tale of the Nutcracker, based on Hoffmann's popular wo... continue

1960.

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenit︠s︡yn EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the "cancerous" Soviet police state.


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