Books from Estonia
28 popular estonian 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 Estonia.
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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Antarctica Ahoy : The Ice Book by Juhan Smuul EN
Description:
This book won the highest literary award in the Soviet Union, the Lenin Prize. It is an amazing, fascinating book. It plunges you into a new world of people, their feelings and views about life. It makes you remember all the travel books you have read and yet does not resemble any of them. Written as a diary, it is an authentic document speaking of living people and giving their names and the story of their life. Is this journalism? It is, and of a very high class, too. It has been written by a journalist and an artist, and reading it you will agree that it is a work of art, a book of reflecti... continue
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Apotheker Melchior und das Rätsel der Olaikirche by Indrek Hargla DE
Description:
Tallinn (früher Reval) im Jahre 1409: Auf dem Domberg wird ein hochrangiger Ordensritter, der von Visby unterwegs nach Marienburg ist, auf grausame Weise ermordet. Alles deutet darauf hin, dass der Mörder vom Domberg in die Stadt geflohen ist. Denn weitere Morde versetzen die Stadt in Aufregung. Stadtapotheker Melchior Wakenstede sucht gemeinsam mit dem Gerichtsvogt Wentzel Dorn nach der Lösung der Mordserie. Auf seiner Suche nach dem Mörder stößt er auf die unterschiedlichsten Menschen und deren mögliche Motive: auf festlichen Gelagen in der Gilde der Schwa... continue
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Baltic Belles : The Dedalus Book of Estonian Women's Literature by Elle-Mari Talivee EN
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This anthology presents readers with a broad selection of fiction written between the late 19th century and today. The collection opens with the early realist Elisabeth Aspe, who described both village life and urban fear during the final decades of the 19th century. Early 20th-century works by female writers often discussed the young creative individual's encounters in the transformed urbanised world, some of the most outstanding examples of which are by the great Betti Alver. After World War II, Estonian writing bore the unmistakable signs of Soviet censorship. Nevertheless, Viivi Luik's mom... continue
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Between Two Sounds : Arvo Pärt's Journey to His Musical Language by Joonas Sildre EN
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A graphic novel follows the celebrated Estonian composer through the cultural, political, personal, and spiritual upheavals that led to the distinctive style that has made him the most performed living composer in the world.
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Brecht at Night by Mati Unt EN
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"One of the most influential modernist, and latterly postmodernist, authors in Estonia." Context
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De gek van de tsaar by Jaan Kross NL
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Een man die zijn belofte, de tsaar altijd de waarheid te vertellen gestand doet, wordt krankzinnig verklaard en tien jaar opgesloten.
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Die K-Gedichte by Robert Gernhardt DE
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2 Gedichtzyklen, in denen R. Gernhardt zuerst seine Krebserkrankung begleitet und verarbeitet (K wie Krankheit, K wie Krebs), dann den Irak-Krieg auf seine Art kommentiert. / Roland Schwarz
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Gogol's Disco by Paavo Matsin EN
Description:
In a parallel or future Estonia, whose language has been outlawed and its native population deported after the invasion by the Russian Tsardom, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is resurrected, Christ-like, bringing phantasmagoric mayhem to the sleepy town of Viljandi. By the end of the story, four evangelists will have emerged from the novel’s ragtag cast of Russian- speaking beatniks, bohemians, booksellers, blaggers, and Beatles- maniacs to write their subversive Gogol Gospels in the local insane asylum, despite efforts to thwart them on the part of the mysterious Murka, heroine of a criminal under... continue
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L'homme qui savait la langue des serpents by Andrus Kivirähk FR
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Une fresque inspirée des sagas scandinaves, se déroulant à une époque médiévale réinventée et mettant en scène des personnages atypiques : le dernier homme connaissant la langue des serpents qui voit le monde de ses ancêtres disparaître, sa soeur amoureuse d'un ours, une paysanne qui rêve d'un loup-garou, des australopithèques éleveurs de poux... Grand prix de l'imaginaire Etonnant voyageurs 2014.