Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (2976)
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The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells EN
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From internationally bestselling author Benedict Wells, a sweeping novel of love and loss, and of the lives we never get to live “[D]azzling storytelling...The End of Loneliness is both affecting and accomplished -- and eternal.”—John Irving Jules Moreau’s childhood is shattered after the sudden death of his parents. Enrolled in boarding school where he and his siblings, Marty and Liz, are forced to live apart, the once vivacious and fearless Jules retreats inward, preferring to live within his memories – until he meets Alva, a kindred soul caught in her own grief. Fifteen years pass and the s... continue
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Eu şi Kaminski by Daniel Kehlmann RO
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Un roman ca un road-movie, alert şi plin de umor, despre lumea artei şi a jurnalismului şi o satiră tăioasă la adresa amândurora. Tânărul ziarist Sebastian Zöllner e convins că a găsit calea spre celebritate: va scrie biografia lui Manuel Kaminski, un pictor octogenar care a ucenicit în preajma lui Matisse. Cândva, pânzele lui stranii le-a sârnit curiozitatea contemporanilor: e geniu sau impostor? Înainte de a afla adevărul, Zöllner îl răpeşte pe bătrânul artist, iar aventura lor se precipită haotică, grotescă şi plină de neprevăz... continue
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Der Tag, an dem ich sterben sollte : Wie der Terror in Hanau mein Leben für immer verändert hat | Der persönliche Bericht eines Terroropfers by Said Etris Hashemi DE
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ein Buch eines Überlebenden des rassistischen Hanau Anschlags und seinem Kampf für Gerechtigkeit
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The Door-To-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn EN
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The charming international bestseller about an elderly bookseller who delivers his recommendations door-to-door and an unlikely friendship with a nine-year-old girl that changes his life, for fans of The Midnight Library and A Man Called Ove. The bookseller Carl Christian Kollhoff delivers books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque alleys of the city. These people are almost like friends to him, and he is their most important connection to the world. When Kollhoff unexpectedly loses his job, it takes the power of books and a nine-year-ol... continue
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Frida Kahlo und die Farben des Lebens : Roman by Caroline Bernard DE
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„Ich bin eine Revolution!“ Frida Kahlo. Mexiko, 1925: Frida will Ärztin werden, ein Unfall macht dies zunichte. Dann verliebt sie sich in das Malergenie Diego Rivera. Mit ihm taucht sie in die Welt der Kunst ein, er ermutigt sie in ihrem Schaffen – und er betrügt sie. Frida ist tief verletzt, im Wissen, dass Glück nur geborgt ist, stürzt sie sich ins Leben. Die Pariser Surrealisten liegen ihr genauso zu Füßen wie Picasso und Trotzki. Frida geht ihren eigenen Weg, ob sie mit ihren Bildern Erfolge feiert oder den Schicksalsschlag einer Fehlgeburt hinnehmen muss – doch dann wird sie vor eine Ents... continue
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A Woman in Berlin : Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary by Marta Hillers EN
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For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. She tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject.
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Daughter of the Enemy by Marie Pal-Brown EN
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The memoir of a child growing up in wartime and postwar Germany. Her father is killed in battle on the Eastern Front. At age 16, she first learns about the Holocaust. Then begins a reckoning with Germany's horrific past that, eventually, leads her to the Baltic country of Latvia, in search of the father she lost.
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One Clear Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century by Roland Schimmelpfennig EN
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"A highly original and often hypnotic work . . . exactly the type of book that readers in search of striking European voices should embrace" John Boyne, author of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS A contemporary Berlin fairy tale that bristles with urban truths - the first novel of Germany's best-known contemporary playwright One clear, ice-cold January morning shortly after dawn, a wolf crosses the border between Poland and Germany. His trail leads all the way to Berlin, connecting the lives of disparate individuals whose paths intersect and diverge. On an icy motorway eighty kilometres outside ... continue
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Dreizehn. Das Tagebuch : Band 1. Roman by Carl Wilckens DE
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Godric End, Symbolfigur des Bürgerkriegs in Dustrien, ist in Gefangenschaft geraten. Für eine Zigarette pro Tag erzählt er den Insassen von Zellenblock 13 seine Geschichte: Ich war elf, als ich zum ersten Mal tötete. Meine Jugend verbrachte ich in einer Drogenhölle ohne Sonnenlicht. Mein einziger Freund war der Hunger. Worte wie Freundschaft, Vertrauen oder Hoffnung bedeuten mir nichts. Das Leben eines Menschen ist für mich nicht mehr wert als das einer Ratte. Ich kann euch töten, ohne mit der Wimper zu zucken. Ich bin mehr Bestie denn Mann und ich giere nach einer Droge namens Perl. Trotzdem ... continue