Books from Belgium
55 popular belgian books
Travel the world without leaving your chair.
The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Belgium.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar EN
Description:
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era.
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Miranda van Frituur Miranda by Erik Vlaminck NL
Description:
Het wel en wee van enkele Vlaamse kermisuitbaters. Vervolg op 'Suikerspin'.
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Monte Carlo by Peter Terrin EN
Description:
It is the Monaco Grand Prix in May 1968. Jack Preston, a mechanic for Team Sutton, is making the final checks on his car as the beau monde mingles with the drivers under the eyes of the world's press and the galleries of spectators. DeeDee, a starlet of great beauty, seems to be walking towards him, or perhaps towards the royal box. Without warning a fireball rips across the starting grid. Preston will always bear the scars as a consequence of his unthinking heroism, his saving the life and the beauty of the girl, but details of the accident remain vague - no photographs capturing the moment h... continue
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Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman EN
Description:
On a springtime Friday afternoon in Paris, Aline Berger, a 35-year-old professor of literature, waits for her train home to Brussels, thumbing impatiently through Virginia Woolf's Orlando. Then, abruptly, Orlanda materializes. Called forth by some literary magic, she is Aline's exuberant and adventurous alter ego, born of Aline's 12-year-old tomboy spirit. Fettered far too long by the adult Aline's demure propriety, Orlanda spots a receptive external host in Lucien Lefrne, a blond 20-year-old youth sitting quietly nearby. Thus begins a labyrinthine ride along converging and... continue
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Petronille by Amélie Nothomb ES
Description:
Disponer de un buen compañero de borrachera es un asunto muy serio. Aficionada al champán, Amélie Nothomb encuentra a la camarada ideal de manera imprevista en una librería donde ha sido invitada a firmar ejemplares de El sabotaje amoroso. Pétronille Fanto, un ser andrógino de veintidós años que parece que tenga quince, una especialista en Christopher Marlowe con aspecto de poligonera, se convertirá con el tiempo en una escritora prolífica y, quizás, en un álter ego maligno de la misma Nothomb. La amistad etílica entre la escritora consagrada y la novel se transforma en duelo dialéctico, diver... continue
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Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon EN
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“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian In Simenon’s iconic first novel featuring Inspector Maigret, the laconic detective is taken from grimy bars to luxury hotels as he traces a fraudster’s true identity Inspector Jules Maigret, a taciturn detective and commissaire of the Paris Brigade Criminelle, receives notice from Interpol that a notorious conman known only as Peitr the Latvian is en route to France. Armed with a br... continue
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Post mortem : roman by Peter Terrin ES
Description:
Een schrijver ontloopt een etentje met een smoes over familie-omstandigheden, maar dan wordt zijn gezin echt getroffen door een ramp.
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Ronduit : overpeinzingen van een possibilist by Caroline Pauwels NL
Description:
Als kind was ik bedreven in het laten opspringen van keien op het water. Dan verschenen er op het wateroppervlak uitdijende kringen. Dat fascineerde me mateloos.Õ Als een beweging van kringen ziet Caroline Pauwels het leven. Van de kleine intieme cirkels van de persoonlijke levenssfeer tot de almaar grotere cirkels van de universiteit, de samenleving en de wereld. Cirkels hebben geen begin en geen einde. Hun ronde vorm is een remedie tegen hokjesdenken. Dat is ook hoe Caroline Pauwels zichzelf ronduit. Cirkels hebben een eigen dynamiek, ze zitten vol mogelijkheden. Als possibilist geloo... continue
