Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (2605)
2091.
death in persia by annemarie schwarzenbach EN
Country: Europe / 
Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
Since the rediscovery of her work in the late 1980s, Annemarie Schwarzenbach--journalist, traveler, archaeologist, opium addict, and antifascist novelist--has become a European cult figure among free spirited bohemians. Available in English for the first time and beautifully translated by Lucy Renner Jones, Death in Persia is a collage of the political and the private, documenting Schwarzenbach's intimate feelings and public ideas during four trips to Persia between 1933 and 1939. From her reflections on individual responsibility in the lead-up to World War II to her reactions to accusations f... continue
2092.
Melody by Martin Suter DE
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
In einer Villa am Zürichberg wohnt Alt-Nationalrat Dr. Stotz, umgeben von Porträts einer jungen Frau. Melody war einst seine Verlobte, doch kurz vor der Hochzeit – vor über 40 Jahren – ist sie verschwunden. Bis heute kommt Stotz nicht darüber hinweg. Für die Ordnung des Nachlasses stellt der alte Herr einen Studenten ein, der diesen Job dringend braucht. Nach und nach stellt sich Tom die Frage, ob Dr. Stotz wirklich ist, wer er vorgibt zu sein.
2093.
Heidi : (fetiţa munţilor) by Johanna Spyri RO
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
2094.
2095.
The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf EN
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
An NYRB Classics Original It is a sunny summer Sunday in a remote Swiss village, and a christening is being celebrated at a lovely old farmhouse. One of the guests notes an anomaly in the fabric of the venerable edifice: a blackened post that has been carefully built into a trim new window frame. Thereby hangs a tale, one that, as the wise old grandfather who has lived all his life in the house proceeds to tell it, takes one chilling turn after another, while his audience listens in appalled silence. Featuring a cruelly overbearing lord of the manor and the oppressed villagers who must render ... continue
2096.
2097.
Allmen and the Dragonflies by Martin Suter EN
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
A thrilling--and quite funny--art heist escapade that evokes a world of European high culture and luxury, while providing a glimpse of some of the shadowy characters who people the dark underbelly of the art and antique markets.
2098.
Turkestan Solo : One Woman's Expedition from the Tien Shan to the Kizil Kum by Ella Maillart EN
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
A stimulating travel book from a 1932 trip in Turkestan (Central Asia) by Ella Maillart, a single Swiss explorer.
2099.
Het boek van de Baltimores by Joël Dicker NL
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
Tot de dag van het Drama waren er twee families Goldman: de Goldmans-uit-Baltimore en de Goldmans-uit-Montclair. De Goldmans-uit-Montclair, waarvan Marcus Goldman deel uitmaakt, zijn een middenklassengezin dat in een klein huis in Montclair woont. De Goldmans-uit-Baltimore vormen een welvarend gezin dat in een luxe villa in een rijke buitenwijk van Baltimore woont. Voor hen koestert Marcus een grenzeloze bewondering.
Acht jaar na het Drama besluit Marcus de geschiedenis van zijn familie te vertellen en blikt hij terug op de lotgevallen van de Goldmans-uit-Baltimore, op zijn dierbare neven Hil... continue
2100.
Mein Name sei Gantenbein by Max Frisch DE
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
Der Erzähler erfindet (»Ich stelle mir vor:«) mögliche Lebensgeschichten dreier Personen: Da ist Gantenbein, der einen Blinden spielt, um so genauer seine Umwelt beobachten zu können. Oder da ist Enderlin, der immer »ein fremder Herr« bleibt. Auch Svoboda muß die Erfahrung machen, daß Liebe und Ehe endlich sind. Übrig im Spiel der erdichteten Rollen bleibt: Gantenbein.