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64 popular swiss 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 Switzerland. 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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Le livre de Baltimore : Roman by Joël Dicker FR

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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Description:
Jusqu'au jour du Drame, il y avait deux familles Goldman. Les Goldman-de-Baltimore et les Goldman-de-Montclair. Les Goldman-de-Montclair, dont est issu Marcus Goldman, l'auteur de La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert, sont une famille de la classe moyenne, habitant une petite maison à Montclair, dans le New Jersey. Les Goldman-de-Baltimore sont une famille prospère à qui tout sourit, vivant dans une luxueuse maison d'une banlieue riche de Baltimore, à qui Marcus vouait une admiration sans borne. Huit ans après le Drame, c'est l'histoire de sa famille que Marcus Goldman décide cette fois de ra... continue


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Los pasos perdidos by Alejo Carpentier ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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Description:
Buscar la utopia es querer encontrar el paraiso, y viceversa. Alejo Carpentier lo intentó por medio de un riquisimo lenguaje, de la naturaleza exuberante. Los pasos perdidos es un descenso a las raices, una travesía cargada de símbolos y de un a ancestral tradición cultural. Esta novela, escrita narra un viaje de vuelta: el protagonista, musicólogo, emprende una expedición al país de su infancia en busca de instrumentos musicales primitivos, al mismo tiempo, es una fuga: huye de un trabajo sinsentido, de una sociedad corrompida.



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Mein Name sei Gantenbein by Max Frisch DE

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Der Erzähler erfindet (»Ich stelle mir vor:«) mögliche Lebensgeschichten dreier Personen: Da ist Gantenbein, der einen Blinden spielt, um so genauer seine Umwelt beobachten zu können. Oder da ist Enderlin, der immer »ein fremder Herr« bleibt. Auch Svoboda muß die Erfahrung machen, daß Liebe und Ehe endlich sind. Übrig im Spiel der erdichteten Rollen bleibt: Gantenbein.

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Melody by Martin Suter DE

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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Description:
In einer Villa am Zürichberg wohnt Alt-Nationalrat Dr. Stotz, umgeben von Porträts einer jungen Frau. Melody war einst seine Verlobte, doch kurz vor der Hochzeit – vor über 40 Jahren – ist sie verschwunden. Bis heute kommt Stotz nicht darüber hinweg. Für die Ordnung des Nachlasses stellt der alte Herr einen Studenten ein, der diesen Job dringend braucht. Nach und nach stellt sich Tom die Frage, ob Dr. Stotz wirklich ist, wer er vorgibt zu sein.

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Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars EN

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At once truly appalling and appallingly funny, Blaise Cendrars's Moravagine bears comparison with Naked Lunch—except that it's a lot more entertaining to read. Heir to an immense aristocratic fortune, mental and physical mutant Moravagine is a monster, a man in pursuit of a theorem that will justify his every desire. Released from a hospital for the criminally insane by his starstruck psychiatrist (the narrator of the book), who foresees a companionship in crime that will also be an unprecedented scientific collaboration, Moravagine travels from Moscow to San Antonio to deepest Amazonia, engag... continue

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Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier EN

Rating: 3.5 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Switzerland flag Switzerland
Description:
Raimund Gregorius is a mild-mannered, middle-aged professor of ancient languages. One morning, as he is teaching, he is seized by a restlessness that drives him to abandon his classroom then and there - shocking his students, and surprising even himself. His unusual impulsiveness is driven by two chance encounters - with a mysterious Portuguese woman in a red coat; and with a book he finds hidden in a dusty corner of a second-hand bookshop, the journal of an enigmatic Portuguese aristocrat, Amadeu de Prado. With the book as his talisman, Raimund boards the night train to Lisbon on a journey to... continue


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