Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (2860)
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Madgermanes by Birgit Weyhe EN
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‘Madgermanes’ is what the Mozambican workers once contracted out to East Germany are called today. At the end of the 1970s, some 20,000 of them were sent from the People’s Republic of Mozambique to the GDR to labour for their socialist sister country. After the Berlin Wall fell, almost all of them lost their residency status. Decades later, they are still waiting for most of their wages to be paid.
Birgit Weyhe depicts their search for belonging and a place to call home, caught between two cultures and two states that no longer exist. Based on extensive interviews, she cre... continue
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The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck EN
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Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a New Directions paperback
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Jenny Erpenbeck's much anticipated new novel Kairos is a complicated love story set amidst swirling, cataclysmic events as the GDR collapses and an old world evaporates
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Mario and the Magician by Thomas Mann EN
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An extraordinary collection of stories from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature - the title story, one of Mann's most political, explores the rise of facism by way of a mysterious magician in a small Italian village. Mann's short stories explore his abiding interest in the split nature of humanity and the discordance of the world it inhabits. In 'A Man and his Dog', domestic tempests are symbols of the muddle of humanity. In 'The Black Swan', the demands of intellect clash with physical desires. And in 'Mario and the Magician' a young family on holiday in Italy encounters a creepy ent... continue
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The Book Jumper by Mechthild Gläser EN
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Amy Lennox doesn't know quite what to expect when she and her mother pick up and leave Germany for Scotland, heading to her mother's childhood home of Lennox House on the island of Stormsay. Amy's grandmother, Lady Mairead, insists that Amy must read while she resides at Lennox House—but not in the usual way. It turns out that Amy is a book jumper, able to leap into a story and interact with the world inside. As thrilling as Amy's new power is, it also brings danger: someone is stealing from the books she visits, and that person may be after her life. Teaming up with fellow book jumper Will, A... continue
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L'heure du chacal by Bernhard Jaumann FR
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La saison des pluies tarde à venir en ce mois de janvier et la Namibie courbe l'échine sous la chaleur et la sécheresse. A Windhoek, la capitale, un homme est abattu à la kalachnikov à travers les barbelés électrifiés de sa propriété. C'est le premier d'une série de meurtres. Les victimes - riches et blanches - ont toutes, vingt ans plus tôt, trempé dans l'assassinat d'un avocat, Anton Lubowski. Clemencia Garrise est chargée de l'enquête. Elle est noire, originaire d'un township. Des exactions de l'apartheid et du combat pour l'indépendance de la Namibie, elle ne connaît que les histoires qu'o... continue
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