Books from Montenegro
4 popular montenegrin books
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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 Montenegro.
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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Catherine the Great and the Small by Olja Knezevic, Ellen Elias-Bursac EN
Country: Europe / Montenegro
Montenegro
Description:
It's June in 1970s Montenegro; school's just let out and Catherine's head is full of Boney M lyrics and playing 'cops and robbers' with her summer crush. Then tragedy rips the heart from her little family and Catherine's life takes on a new trajectory.
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Catherine the Great and the Small by Olja Knezevic, Ellen Elias-Bursac EN
Country: Europe / Montenegro
Montenegro
Description:
It's June in 1970s Montenegro; school's just let out and Catherine's head is full of Boney M lyrics and playing 'cops and robbers' with her summer crush. Then tragedy rips the heart from her little family and Catherine's life takes on a new trajectory.
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La boca llena de tierra by Branimir Scepanovic ES
Country: Europe / Montenegro
Montenegro
Description:
Brilliantly written by Serbian visionary Branimir Scepanovic, this novel tells the story of one man’s desperate attempt to return to his home country of Montenegro while being pursued by a group of strangers aiming to kill him. This anguishing journey is both metaphysical and symbolic, representing the relationships that exist between the individual and the collective and between perpetrators and victims. Fast-paced and gripping, this book explores the man’s innate desire to keep at least one of his rights: the right to die by his own hand. Brillantemente escrita por el visionario serbio Brani... continue
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The Apology and the Last Days : A Novel by Borislav Pekic EN
Country: Europe / Montenegro
Montenegro
Description:
Originally published in 1975, The Apology and the Last Days is the final volume in a trilogy of novels—also including The Rise and Fall of Icarus Gubelkian and How to Quiet a Vampire—about the aftermath of World War II, by Borislav Pekić, one of the former !--?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /--Yugoslavia’s most important postwar writers. The narrator tells his story from prison, where he is serving time for the murder of a former Nazi official. As the novel unfolds, we learn that the victim was the same person whom the narrator, while a lifeguard d... continue