Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (2772)
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Le Joueur d'échecs by Stefan Zweig FR
AustriaDescription:
Sur un paquebot reliant New York à Buenos Aires, en 1939, le champion du monde d'échecs est mis en difficulté par un inconnu lors d'une partie improvisée. L'homme, qui affirme ne pas s'être assis devant un échiquier depuis plus de vingt ans, confie au narrateur sa terrible histoire : rescapé de la terreur nazie en Autriche, il a été soumis pendant plusieurs mois à la torture psychologique d'un isolement total, auquel seul le jeu d'échecs, qu'il pratiquait mentalement, lui a permis d'échapper... Le Joueur d'échecs, que Zweig rédigea en 1941 depuis l'exil et qu'il acheva peu de temps avant de se... continue
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Chess Story by Stefan Zweig EN
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Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological. Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them ... continue
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Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig DE
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Als der Rechtsanwalt Dr. B. eine Reise auf einem Passagierdampfer antritt, ahnt er nicht, dass sich der bekannte Schachweltmeister Mirko Czentovic ebenfalls an Bord befindet. Fasziniert von diesem Genie bittet Dr. B.um ein Duell. Dabei werden traumatische Erinnerungen in ihm wachgerufen, denn das »Spiel der Könige« erlernte er einst als Gefangener der Gestapo. Im Duell gegen Czentovic prallen nun nicht nur zwei unterschiedliche Spielideen aufeinander, sondern auch zwei Lebenswelten.
Die »Schachnovelle« ist Stefan Zweigs letztes und wohl bekanntestes Werk, das nu... continue
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Lena : unser Dorf und der Krieg by Käthe Recheis DE
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Das Buch beschreibt wie das österreichische Mädchen Lena die Nazizeit erlebt.
Es werden viele Themen angesprochen, z.B. der Anschluß Österreichs, der Holocaust, Euthanasie, Bombenangriffe, Hitlerjugend u.v.m.
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In post-World War II Austria, Gerti, a woman on the verge of a breakdown due to her husband's relentless sexual attentions, wanders away from home one day and is rescued by an ambitious young man who turns out to be much like her husband.
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The Case of the Lamp That Went Out by Auguste Groner EN
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Reprint of the detective novel starring Joseph Müller, Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police.
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Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann EN
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Here is the story of lives painfully intertwined. An unnamed narrator is haunted by nightmarish memories of her father and desperate for the attentions of her lover. Her only companion is the androgynous Malina with whom she lives, an initially remote and dispassionate man who ultimately becomes an ominous influence. Plunging towards its riveting finale, Malina lays bare the struggle for love and the limits of discourse between men and women.
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Blackout : A Novel by Marc Elsberg EN
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"Fast, tense, thrilling -- and timely: this will happen one day. Highly recommended." --Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series This is no accident. This is no act of God. This is Blackout. A terrifyingly plausible million-copy selling debut disaster thriller. When the lights go out one night, no one panics. Not yet. The lights always come back on soon, don't they? Surely it's a glitch, a storm, a malfunction. But something seems strange about this night. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electrical grids collapse. There is no power, anywhere. ... continue