Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (2975)
2171.
La ladrona de huesos by Manel Loureiro ES
SpainDescription:
Tras ser víctima de un salvaje atentado, Laura pierde completamente la memoria. Solo el cariño de Carlos, el hombre del que se ha enamorado, le ayuda a percibir destellos de su misterioso pasado. Pero ¿quién es Laura? ¿Qué le sucedió? Durante una cena romántica, Carlos desaparece de forma inexplicable y sin dejar rastro. Una llamada al móvil de la joven le anuncia que, si quiere volver a ver con vida a su pareja, tendrá que aceptar un peligroso reto de insospechadas consecuencias: robar las reliquias del Apóstol en la catedral de Santiago. Sin dudar un segundo, Laura se embarca en una misión i... continue
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Quijote en el Congo by Xavier Aldekoa ES
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Esta es la historia de un sueño infantil convertido en obsesión adulta «Durante más de dos meses de navegación fui Sancho Panza. Como el escudero de la mayor novela de caballerías jamás escrita, fui testigo fascinado de aquel mundo desconocido que se abría ante mí, recorriendo un río quijotesco, casi místico, que se adentraba bravo y temerario en una selva infranqueable para construir a su paso una historia extraordinaria.» A lo largo de más de 4.700 kilómetros, el río Congo, esencia de la riqueza y las cicatrices de todo un continente, es una puerta abierta a la historia, la cultura y las tra... continue
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Kleine helden by Almudena Grandes NL
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Kleine helden is een hartverwarmende roman over een volksbuurt in Madrid. Rijk en arm, jong en oud, singles en gezinnen, Spanjaarden en immigranten. Zij hebben geen schuld aan de crisis, maar moeten haar wel dragen, en er ondanks alles proberen bovenuit te stijgen. Elk op hun eigen manier beleven buurtgenoten bitterzoete momenten van onverwachte solidariteit, van verontwaardiging en woede maar ook van tederheid en doorzetten. Samen blazen ze hun buurt nieuw leven in. Een roman over durven opstaan, en over kleine daden die het verschil maken.
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Out of Havana : Memoirs of Ordinary Life in Cuba by Araceli Alonso EN
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Out of Havana provides an uncommon ordinary woman's insight into the last half century of Cuba's tumultuous recent history. More powerfully than an academic study or historical account, it allows us intimately to grasp the enthusiasm, commitment and sense of promise that defined many average Cubans' experience of the 1959 Revolution and the first triumphant decades of the Castro regime. As the story shifts into the final decades of the last century (the 1980s Mariel Boatlift, the so-called "special period in time of peace" [from 1991 to the end of the decade], and the 1994 Balseros or Rafters ... continue
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_______________ 'His novels probe the sore spots and raw wounds of contemporary Spain, their cunning and complexity leavened by a light touch and an easy, graceful style' - Boyd Tonkin, Independent on Sunday 'The beauty of this intelligently probing novel is that one is left wondering if we ever truly know anything about anybody – that anybody including ourselves' - Scotsman 'Compelling ... the real strengths of the book are in Cercas's unadorned prose, once again deftly translated by Anne McLean, and in his ear for the rhythms of everyday speech' - Guardian _______________ Longlisted for the ... continue
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Her Mother's Hands by Karmele Jaio EN
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Her Mother's Hands is an examination of the deepest human bonds and a beautiful and moving tribute to life.
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Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur EN
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Marcelino lives alone on his parents' farm, set deep in the beautiful but impoverished countryside of Asturias, northern Spain. It's the place where he grew up, where he doted on his beloved baby brother, where he protected his mother from his father's drunken rages. But when Marcelino's brother tricks him out of his land and home, a moment of uncontrolled anger sparks a chain of events that can't be reversed. Marcelino flees into the wild peaks, dense woods and abandoned villages that surround his home, becoming a cult hero as he evades the authorities. Into this unconventional thriller, Astu... continue
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How to Use Your Enemies by Baltasar Gracián EN
Description:
A seventeenth-century Spanish priest's shrewd maxims on using guile and pragmatism to succeed in a dangerous world.
