Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (2887)
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Yann Martel's beloved Life of Pi-- recently made into a stunning 3D film directed by Ang Lee-- is now available in a deluxe pocket edition with leatherette cover.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez EN
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When Julio finally decided to fight, the world and his family knew him for a different man. In the end, a spoiled son of privilege became a man of honor and integrity, a noble soldier in the war to end all wars.
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Ultimas tardes con Teresa by Juan Marsé ES
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El audaz y ambicioso Manolo, chulo y caza-fortunas, desheredado murciano del Monte Carmelo en Barcelona, luego del equívoco con Maruja, logra llegar a la rica universitaria Teresa Serrat, y para su sorpresa, conoce el verdadero amor.
El libro está desarrollado con crudo realismo, un erotismo siempre latente y una tierna construcción de los personajes. Bueno.
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Death in Spring : A Novel by Mercè Rodoreda EN
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Merce Rodoreda depicts the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless town-burying the dead in trees after filling their mouths with cement to prevent their soul from escaping, or sending a man to swim in the river that courses underneath the town to discover if they will be washed away by a flood-through the eyes of a fourteen-year-old boy who must come to terms with the rhyme and reason of this ritual violence, and with his wild, child-like, and teenaged stepmother, who becomes his playmate.
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Maana En La Batalla Piensa En Mi by Franco Javier Marias ES
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Víctor Francés, un escritor frustrado que presta su pluma a otros, es invitado a cenar a casa de Marta Téllez, una hermosa mujer casada a la que apenas conoce y cuyo marido está de viaje en Londres. La noche promete pero, antes de poder consumar el adulterio, Marta comienza a sentirse mal y muere. Víctor huye entonces de esa casa ajena, dejando a un niño de dos años durmiendo em una de las habitaciones y una mujer muerta. En un Madrid invernal y nocturno, el narrador se convertirá desde ese momento en una sombra que se finge quien no es, que disimula sus intenciones, que no quiere ni busca nad... continue
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The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón EN
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From the author of the international phenomenon "The Shadow of the Wind" comes "The Angel's Game" comes a new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love. Through a dizzingly constructed labyrinth of secrets, the magic of books, passion, and friendship blend into a masterful story.
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An Apartment on Uranus : Chronicles of the Crossing by Paul B. Preciado EN
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A “dissident of the gender-sex binary system” reflects on gender transitioning and political and cultural transitions in technoscientific capitalism. Uranus, the frozen giant, is the coldest planet in the solar system as well as a deity in Greek mythology. It is also the inspiration for uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrich in 1864 to define the “third sex” and the rights of those who “love differently.” Following Ulrich, Paul B. Preciado dreams of an apartment on Uranus where he might live beyond existing power, gender and racial strictures invented by modernity. “My tr... continue
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Gypsy Ballads by Federico García Lorca EN
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Federico Garcia Lorca wrote the Gypsy Ballads between 1924 and 1927. When the book was published it caused a sensation in the literary world. Drawing on the traditional Spanish ballad form, Lorca described his Romancero Gitano as 'the poem of Andalucia...A book that hardly expresses visible Andalusia at all, but where hidden Andalucia trembles'. Seeking to relate the nature of his proud and troubled region of Spain, he drew on a traditional gypsy form; yet the homely, unpretentious style of these poems barely disguises the undercurrents of conflicted identity never far from Lorca's work. This ... continue