Contemporary European Fiction Series
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Linn Ullmann
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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