Contemporary European Fiction Series

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Tyll
Daniel Kehlmann

Tyll

A major new novel by Daniel Kehlmann The vagrant, actor, entertainer and provocateur Tyll Ulenspiegel is born in the early 1600s. Tyll’s father, a miller, is also a magician and explorer, and soon arouses the ire of the villa
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Thus Bad Begins
Javier Marías

Thus Bad Begins

*Named a Best Book of the Year by the Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times* * From the internationally acclaimed author of The Infatuations comes the mesmerizing story of a couple living in the shadow of a mysterious, unhappy history - a novel ab
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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Elena Ferrante

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among auth
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Colors of the Fire
Pierre Lemaitre

Colors of the Fire

February 1927 The funeral of the banker Marcel Péricourt. His daughter Madeleine will inherit his financial empire. But, unexpectedly, her seven-year-old son, Paul, throws himself out of the window and falls onto his grandfather's c
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Nutshell
Ian McEwan

Nutshell

Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in
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Memorial of the Convent
José Saramago

Memorial of the Convent

From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a “brilliant... enchanting novel” (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition.
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The Mystery of Henri Pick
David Foenkinos

The Mystery of Henri Pick

The book tells the story of a young editor who finds a masterpiece written by Henri Pick, an unknown writer, among manuscripts that have been refused by the publishers. She tries to find the writer and learns that he died two years earlier, b
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The End of Loneliness
Benedict Wells

The End of Loneliness

Marty, Liz and Jules' idyllic childhood with their loving parents in Munich is shattered by the death of their parents in a car crash, and their charmed life is exchanged for a bleak state boarding school. As the three deal with
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Sweet Tooth
Ian McEwan

Sweet Tooth

In this stunning new novel, Ian McEwan's first female protagonist since Atonement is about to learn that espionage is the ultimate seduction. Cambridge student Serena Frome's beauty and intelligence make her the ideal recruit for MI5.
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Someone Like You
Xavier Bosch

Someone Like You

Jean-Pierre Zanardi, a gallery owner on the Left Bank, is a free spirit. Paulina Homs, a woman living a peaceful family life in Barcelona, comes to Paris for her cousin’s wedding. As if fate had planned it, Jean-Pierre and Paulina fall f
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Up to date
Christophe van Gerrewey

Up to date

A young man awakens in a house belonging to friends. They are on holiday, and he is taking care of their cat. He remembers how he spent the previous summer in exactly the same house, accompanied by his lover. She is no longer there, and he decide
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Frozen Times
Anna Kim

Frozen Times

Since the end of the war in the former Yugoslavia, more than 30,000 people were reported as missing to the International Committee of the Red Cross. So far, only 15,000 of them have been identified. This is the background to the story Anna
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The Flesh
Rosa Montero

The Flesh

A dangerous and appealing literary meditation about the body and desire at an adult age. Single and childless, Soledad has turned sixty, which she calls “the age of the dogs”. But in her case, what many would consider a normal life,
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The Temptation to be Happy
Lorenzo Marone

The Temptation to be Happy

Cesare is a seventy-seven-year-old widower and cynical troublemaker. He has lived his whole life by his own rules and has no intention of changing now. Aside from an intermittent fling with a nurse called Rossana, he spends his
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Forgive me
Ida Hegazi Høyer

Forgive me

Forgive Me (2014) is an intense novel about love, self-deception and dangerous secrets. In Ida Hegazi Høyer's third book, a young woman meets a young man, and it's love at first sight. He is a student of philosophy who impresses her deep
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The Last Guardian of Ellis Island
Gaëlle Josse

The Last Guardian of Ellis Island

New York, 3 November 1954. In five days, the immigration station on Ellis Island, which all immigrants from Europe since 1892 have had to pass through, will close its doors. Alone in this huge deserted space, John Mitchell, an officer of the Bur
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A God in Ruins
Kate Atkinson

A God in Ruins

In Life After Life Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula’s beloved younger brother Teddy – would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husb
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Blue Mondays
Arnon Grunberg

Blue Mondays

Expelled from school and estranged from his father, a cynical young man wanders the streets of Amsterdam, spending his remaining funds on prostitutes and surviving on the strength of his wit and humor. "People are as disposable as plastic bags,"
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Cain
José Saramago

Cain

The life of a god isn’t as easy as you think, said God to Cain. The hero or anti-hero of this story, depending on one’s point of view, is none but Cain, Adam’s other son, the first murderer, the embodiment of evil, tran
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Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes
Guzel Yakhina

Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes

The year is 1930. In a small Tartar village, a woman named Zuleikha watches as her husband is murdered by communists. Zuleikha herself is sent into exile, enduring a horrendous train journey to a remote spot on the Angara River in Siberia
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The Shadow of the Cathedral
Miloš Urban

The Shadow of the Cathedral

Milos Urban's latest novel - The Shadow of the Cathedral, appeared in September 2003 - and its main protagonist is none but Prague's Saint Vitus Cathedral, that dominates the city's skyline. As Milos Urban himself points out, in many ways the
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The Story of a New Name
Elena Ferrante

The Story of a New Name

The second book, following last year’s My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-disc
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London Fields
Martin Amis

London Fields

There is a murderer, there is a murderee, and there is a foil. Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. And this is a love story. But the murderee - Nicola Six - is searching for some
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The Double
José Saramago

The Double

Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a rather one-sided relationship with a bank clerk, and he is depressed. To lift his depression, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video
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Based on a True Story
Delphine de Vigan

Based on a True Story

The whole story is based on the international bestseller "Nothing Holds Back the Night" (Colibri, 2013), a novel about the charming and mentally unstable mother of the author, who committed suicide. After the presentation of author's new b
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Limonov
Emmanuel Carrère

Limonov

"Limonov" is the fictional biography of Eduard Limonov (1943), a Russian writer, politician, contradictory and eccentric personality. Limonov was a small bandit in Ukraine; an idol of the Soviet underground during the time of Brezhnev; a totter; a s
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Splendour
Margaret Mazzantini

Splendour

Skilful in the revelation of human destinies that touch and shake, in this novel Margaret Mazzantini pays attention to the different. Two boys, two adolescents, two mature men, each with indelible scars from childhood, two bodies and two
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The Spinning Heart
Donal Ryan

The Spinning Heart

In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices, each struggling
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Odessa Star
Herman Koch

Odessa Star

In his fourth novel, Herman Koch presents his own twisted take on a familiar plotline: the protagonist Fred Moorman, stranded in a meaningless job and a joyless marriage, is anything but a pitiful victim. He is an unscrupulous man who doesn&rsquo
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Lives Other Than My Own
Emmanuel Carrère

Lives Other Than My Own

In the winter of 2004, Emmanuel Carrère and his life companion Ellen spent their vacation in Sri Lanka when the island was hit by a devastating tsunami. They get closer with a young family who had lost their four-year-old daughter
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The Kukotsky Enigma
Lyudmila Ulitskaya

The Kukotsky Enigma

„The Kukotsky Enigma” is a peculiar family saga, centered on the dramatic story of the Russian professor Pavel Kukotsky, a prominent medical gynecologist with an extraordinary gift, confronted every day by the battle betw
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The Children Act
Ian McEwan

The Children Act

Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law. Often the outcome of a case seems simple from the outs
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The Conqueror
Nedim Gürsel

The Conqueror

The author of over thirty books, including novels, essays, short stories, literary criticism, and travel writing, Nedim Gursel received Turkey's highest literature prize, the Prize of the Turkish Language Academy, in 1976 for his volume of stories
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Clocks in My Mother's Room
Tanja Stupar Trifunović

Clocks in My Mother's Room

This is a story about a mother and a daughter, and about the life of women in the former Yugoslavia: the mother is a mirror through which the heroine tries to find her past and understand herself in the modern world, by returning to the very beg
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The Little Girl Who Played at Being God
Dan Lungu

The Little Girl Who Played at Being God

Surprising, emotional and full of humor, but also with deep sadness, this novel tells a story about modern labor migration in unexpected and exciting way. "Dan Lungu proves, yet again, if proof were needed, that he is a natural-born w
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Things That Fall from the Sky
Selja Ahava

Things That Fall from the Sky

Selja Ahava’s novel is a stunning narrative that explores the unexpected and inexplicable nature of reality. A triptych of voices weave together an array of human attempts to force life into logical chains of events. On a sunny summer
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The Man of Feeling
Javier Marías

The Man of Feeling

Glinting like a moonstone with layers of emotion, The Man of Feeling is a sleek and strange tale of cosmopolitan love. An affair between a married woman and a young man just becoming an opera star (curiously helped along by the husband's factotum) m
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Waiting for Bojangles
Olivier Bourdeaut

Waiting for Bojangles

Waiting for Bojangles, the book about a child with eccentric parents, had sold over 120,000 copies in France, just in three months after being released in January 2016! In this short novel, an unconventional and, apparently, blissfully happy coup
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Ancient Light
John Banville

Ancient Light

Is there a difference between memory and invention? That is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave as he reflects on his first, and perhaps only, love — an underage affair with his best friend’s mother. When his stunted acting car
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The Infinities
John Banville

The Infinities

On a languid midsummer’s day in the countryside, the old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician, is dying. His family gathers at his bedside: his son, young Adam, struggling to maintain his marriage to a radiantly beautiful actr
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My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
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My Brilliant Friend

A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meti
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The Kingdom
Emmanuel Carrère

The Kingdom

Corinth, ancient Greece, two thousand years ago. An itinerant preacher, poor, wracked by illness, tells the story of a prophet who was crucified in Judea, who came back from the dead, and whose return is a sign of something enormous. Like a con
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Eternity
Alice Ferney

Eternity

Arthur and Julie Bourgeois had five girls. Two of them died young. The other three, Ellen, Henriette and Valantin entered a legal marriage. Eighteen grandchildren came from them, forty-three descendants of second generation, one hundred fi
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Me and Kaminski
Daniel Kehlmann

Me and Kaminski

From the internationally best-selling author Daniel Kehlmann, a provocative and wickedly funny novel about two unpredictable men–one an artist and the other a journalist, who together embark on an unexpected adventure with uproarious results.
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Tirza
Arnon Grunberg

Tirza

Jorgen Hofmeester once had it all: a beautiful wife, a nice house with a garden in an upperclass neighborhood in Amsterdam, a respectable job as an editor, two lovely daughters named Ibi and Tirza, and a large amount of money in
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A History of Light
Jan Němec

A History of Light

A novel about the photographer František Drtikol. Have you ever wondered what a story written by a beam of light would be like? Firstly, the story would be ordinary but the course of events extraordinary; secondly, its hero would be a ph
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Barbarian Spring
Jonas Lüscher

Barbarian Spring

On a business trip to Tunisia, Preising, a leading Swiss industrialist, is invited to spend the week with the daughter of a local gangster. He accompanies her to the wedding of two London city traders at a desert luxury resort that was once the site
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The Camp of Fallen Women
Anton Baláž

The Camp of Fallen Women

The year is 1949. Europe has been split by the Iron Curtain with Stalinism growing exponentially in its eastern part. In post-war Czechoslovakia, the communist authorities ship a group of prostitutes to a re-education camp to be turned into "dece

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