Contemporary European Fiction Series

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Measuring the World
Daniel Kehlmann

Measuring the World

"Measuring the World" is a novel by the Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann who has been hailed as one of the most promising new generation of writers. This novel is the first of his to be translated into English (by Carol Brown Janeway) and ha
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The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Paolo Giordano

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

"The Solitude of Prime Numbers", Giordano's first novel, took Italy by storm where it has sold over a million copies. It was translated into thirty languages and has been selling all over the world. Paolo Giordano narrates the childhood and young
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The Kindly Ones
Jonathan Littell

The Kindly Ones

The Kindly Ones (French: Les Bienveillantes) is a historical fiction novel written in French by American-born author Jonathan Littell. The 900-page book became a bestseller in France and was widely discussed in newspapers, magazines, academic jou
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The Prophet and the Idiot
Jonas Jonasson
★★★★★

The Prophet and the Idiot

Sweden, late summer of 2011. Self-taught astrophysicist Petra has calculated that the atmosphere will collapse on the 21st of September that year, around 21.20 to be more precise, bringing about the end of times. Circumstances bring Petra the do
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Berta Isla
Javier Marías

Berta Isla

A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR When Berta Isla was a schoolgirl, she decided she would marry Tomás Nevinson–the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages. But when Tom&
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The Ages of the Game – Citadel Street
Claudio M. Florian

The Ages of the Game – Citadel Street

We find ourselves in 1973, somewhere near Brașov in Romania, in a family that comprises Germans, people from the Oltenia region, from Transylvania, and from Bucharest. Sometime before the First World War, the great-grandparents left for work
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The Force of a Destiny
Marti Gironell

The Force of a Destiny

From the fascist Franco regime to Hollywood’s glamour―an epic historical novel based on the meteoric rise of one of the world’s most celebrated restaurateurs. Ceferino Carrión is desperate for a new life - one of opportunit
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Fontana di Trevi
Gabriela Adameșteanu

Fontana di Trevi

Does the coin of luck thrown at the Trevi Fountain in Rome bring happiness? How can Leticia, who emigrated to France, get her inheritance from the uncles repressed by the communist regime? What new will she learn about her confused
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Behind the Back
Haska Shyyan

Behind the Back

When Marta’s boyfriend Max decides to enlist in the Ukrainian army to go and fight in the ongoing war in Eastern Ukraine, the young woman is torn. The fighting takes place far from the comfortable nest they have built themselves - some 1,
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The Lost Daughter
Elena Ferrante

The Lost Daughter

“Elena Ferrante will blow you away.” — Alice Sebold Leda is a middle-aged divorcée devoted to her work as an English teacher and to her two children. When her daughters leave home to be with their father in Canada, Leda ant
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The Palisander Guitar
Kristina Gavran

The Palisander Guitar

The Palisander Guitar (2018) was shortlisted for the European Literature Award. The novel focuses on five female destinies. Seemingly centuries apart, each in its own world and in its own story, with its closed worlds evolving from m
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Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd
Jonas Jonasson

Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd

The brand-new adventure from the beloved author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gall
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Two Sisters
David Foenkinos

Two Sisters

Mathilde is a high school French teacher who loves her profession, adores Flaubert and is in love with Etienne. When he leaves her shortly before they get married, her world collapses. Then her sister Agatha, who lives with Frédéri
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Dream Stories
Panos Ioannides

Dream Stories

This collection contains the best stories of Panos Ioannides: being magnetic, they draw the reader in the intermediate state between dream and reality, and his characters are imprinted in the memory along with the specific Greek
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Hairdresser's Stories
Elvira Seminara

Hairdresser's Stories

A reader who writes next to her favorite magazine. A husband refusing to accept infidelity. A girl who hears more than she would like. A nun on her way to her first convent. An immigrant from Sri Lanka with a dream to be a blonde. A divorced
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Kassandra and the Wolf
Margarita Karapanou

Kassandra and the Wolf

Margarita Karapanou’s Kassandra and the Wolf was first published in 1974, and went on to become a contemporary classic in Greece, receive international acclaim, and establish its 28-year-old author as an intensely original new ta
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The Glass Garden
Tatiana Tibuleac

The Glass Garden

The Glass Garden is a Bildungsroman about an orphan, live-proven girl. Although the subject implies the risk of melodrama, the author avoids the trap through a stylistic masterpiece. Taken from the orphanage by a Russian woman, Lastochka
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The Slander
Rosa Ventrella

The Slander

In this family saga, the author builds the story of two sisters and their family, the story of the struggle of women and men against the abuse of powerful landowners in Puglia in the '40s and' 50s. A powerful novel in which the beauty and stren
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Troubling Love
Elena Ferrante

Troubling Love

Set in Naples, Italy, this debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Elena Ferrante (My Brilliant Friend, The Days of Abandonment) tells a story about mothers and daughters and the complicated knot of lies, emotions, and shared history than
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My Name Is Not Miriam
Majgull Axelsson

My Name Is Not Miriam

In her novel My Name Is Not Miriam, the writer takes us through the life of a Roma woman who survived the horrors of World War II. Malika was sent to Auschwitz, where she was forced to change her name to Miriam in order to survive. Even a
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Magnetic Hill
Réka Mán-Várhegyi

Magnetic Hill

Réka Mán-Várhegyi’s novel paints a vivid picture of the life of young academics in Hungary at the turn of the millennia. Enikő, a thirty-something feminist sociologist returns to Budapest from New York, brimming wi
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Before My Husband Disapears
Selja Ahava

Before My Husband Disapears

There are sentences that divide time into before and after. A woman loses her husband with one of these sentences. Helplessly she watches as she has less of a husband left with each passing day and how the past and the future collapse into the u
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Unquiet
Linn Ullmann
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Unquiet

Praised across Scandinavia as a "literary masterpiece," "spellbinding," and "magnificent," Unquiet reflects on six taped conversations the author had with her father at the very end of his life. He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and
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Ever Green Is...
Pavel Vilikovsky

Ever Green Is...

Hailed as one of the most important Eastern European writers of the post-Communist era, Pavel Vilikovsky actually began his career in 1965. But the political content of his writing and its straightforward treatment of such taboo topics as bisexua
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Ghost Story
Laura Freudenthaler

Ghost Story

What if a void suddenly opened up in your life? This is the question Laura Freudenthaler pursues in her second novel Ghost Story. In her gap year, that she meant to spend playing piano and writing textbooks, Anne is thrown off track. One by one
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Four Corners of the Heart
Françoise Sagan

Four Corners of the Heart

"Four Corners of the Heart", an unfinished 200-page story by the author of "Bonjour Tristesse" – which caused a sensation with its portrayal of the empty lives of the idle rich – was found by her son Denis Westhoff after he
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The Queen Is Silent
Laura Freudenthaler

The Queen Is Silent

This novel retraces, in a remarkable manner, a lifetime in the secluded cosmos of a village from the fragments of memory of an old woman. This life’s story is tragic. However, never does this woman perceive it as such – she rath
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Joyce's Pupil
Drago Jančar

Joyce's Pupil

The finest short stories of Slovenia's most prominent author. A young man learns English in Trieste in 1914 from James Joyce, who repeatedly describes an oil lamp. Years later, in 1941, this same man must flee his country, and he becomes the S
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No And Me
Delphine de Vigan

No And Me

The international award-winning story of two girls from different backgrounds, united in friendship Parisian teenager Lou has an IQ of 160, OCD tendencies, and a mother who has suffered from depression for years. But Lou is about to c
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The Cockroach
Ian McEwan

The Cockroach

That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnat
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You Said It
Connie Palmen

You Said It

After Ted Hughes left her for another woman, Sylvia Plath killed herself. She became a martyr and a saint; he was branded a murderer and a monster. Hughes did little to dispel this version of events. In this novel, written as a dramatic monol
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Holding
Graham Norton

Holding

A New York Times Bestseller From Graham Norton, the BAFTA-award-winning Irish television host and author of the “sparkling and impish” (Daily Mail) memoirs The Life and Loves of a He Devil and So Me, comes a charming d
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The Red Angel
Nedim Gürsel

The Red Angel

The novel "The Red Angel" is an account of two lives, marked and predestined by the events that left their bloody mark on the 20th century. An anonymous call prompted the author of a biography of Nazim Hikmet to go to Berlin to receive import
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Graduation Anniversary
Lamija Begagić

Graduation Anniversary

In "Graduation Anniversary" Lamija Begagić makes us all witnesses of pieces of the lives of her former classmates, still young people, whose existence has been marked forever by the war. But the thunderous words, as well as the big topics
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A Hunger
Jamal Ouariachi

A Hunger

Jamal Ouariachi bases this masterly novel of ideas on the life of Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, a physician and medical researcher convicted of child abuse. Besides exploring the nature of love and examining the wisdom and folly of de
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The Story of the Lost Child
Elena Ferrante

The Story of the Lost Child

Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults; life’s great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women&rsq
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The Susan Effect
Peter Hoeg

The Susan Effect

You'll tell her your darkest secrets Susan Svendsen has an unusual talent. She is an expert in finding out secrets. People feel compelled to confide in her and unwittingly confess their innermost thoughts. Her whole life, she has exploited this
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Estoril
Dejan Tiago Stanković

Estoril

Set in a luxurious grand hotel just outside Lisbon, at the height of the Second World War, Estoril is a delightful and poignant novel about exile, divided loyalties, fear and survival. The hotel's guests include spies, fallen kings, refugees from th
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Machines Like Me
Ian McEwan

Machines Like Me

Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines
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The Joke
Yannis Palavos
★★★★★

The Joke

First Award of Greek Academy 2013 A young man has a friendly chat with his deceased grandmother. An office clerk turns into a stapler. Poet Francois Villon makes a fresh start. Yiorgos becomes a pensioner. Seventeen short stor
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Non-Oui
Lidija Dimkovska

Non-Oui

In her youth, the Croatian grandmother Nedelka, nicknamed Non-Oui, fell in love with an Italian soldier, and after the end of World War II, she followed him to Sicily. Years after that, her death marked the beginning of a tense and exciting journey
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Chronicle in Stone
Ismail Kadare

Chronicle in Stone

Masterful in its simplicity, Chronicle in Stone is a touching coming-of-age story and a testament to the perseverance of the human spirit. Surrounded by the magic of beautiful women and literature, a boy must endure the deprivati
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Arcueil
Aleksandar Bečanović

Arcueil

On Easter Sunday, April 3, 1768, Marquis de Sade promised an écu to a beggar by the name of Rose Keller if she would follow him to Arcueil. Only a few hours later, after Keller managed to escape from the Marquis’ country house, this
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The Tobacconist
Robert Seethaler

The Tobacconist

From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story about one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna. Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vi
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A Question of Lunacy
Ismail Kadare

A Question of Lunacy

A Question of Lunacy (2004) is a mini-novel that depicts the Albanian reality since the beginning of the communist regime, through the bewildered gaze of a child who is the author himself. In this somewhat autobiographical work, written wit
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Double Glazing
Halldóra K. Thoroddsen

Double Glazing

Modern life separates generations and isolates both youth and those in old age. The often overlooked passions of old age are captured exquisitely in the novella Tvöfalt gler (Double Glazing). Death is closing in on an elderly woman in her sma
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The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
Jonas Jonasson

The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man

The sequel to Jonas Jonasson’s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some
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Women's Lies (Through Line)
Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Women's Lies (Through Line)

Most of the stories in the "Women's Lies" are united by the theme of lie, with which Zhenya is confronted at different times and under different circumstances. Or rather, by the theme of fiction that embellishes the daily life and makes it brighter
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