Contemporary European Fiction
Umberto Eco
Minerva's Matchbook
This volume collects texts published between 1990 and 2000 in the legendary column "Bustina di Minerva" - "Minerva Matches", which Umberto Eco (1932-2016) wrote in the magazine.
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Laurent Gounelle
An Almost Perfect World
The young programmer David Lisner lives in the Land of the Upright, an overdeveloped technological society that has nearly achieved perfection in its concern for the happiness of its citizens.
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Pete Townshend
Minerva's Matchbook
Pete Townsend started with the idea of an opera, but as he said in an interview, he turned the plot into a "psychological novel".
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Giovanna Giordano
The Scent of Freedom
The year is 1923 and the place is a small village in Sicily named Jesso. A brave boy leaves the known world and rushes with all the energy of his twenties to the new and unknown continent of America.
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Tom Kuka
Stones of Loneliness
The year is 1913. Seventy-two selected men, Albanian Muslims from the disputed region of Chameria, were lured to Paramitia by the Greek bishop with an olive branch, but were beaten to death…
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Francis Kirps
The Mutations
"The Mutation" is a collection of seven short stories and one poem written in German, with one story featuring passages written in Luxembourgish. The titlegiving ‘mutations’ are programmatic in two major regards: thematically, as the sto
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Javier Cercas
Soldiers of Salamis
In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, a writer and founding member of Franco's Fascist Party is about to be shot, and yet miraculously escapes into the forest. When his hiding place is discovered, he faces death for the second time
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Silvia Avallone
Black Heart
Emilia and Bruno meet in Sassaya, a small village nestled in the Biella mountains. In this God-forgotten corner of the world, they realize that they have lost everything - although for very different reasons - and that Sassaya is a plac
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Mélissa Da Costa
The Next Day
Amanda has lost her husband and the child she was expecting. Isolated in a secluded house in the countryside, she lives with the shutters down and without contact with the outside world, unable to overcome her grief from her misfortune. Th
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Irene Vallejo
The Bowman's Whistle
"A short novel that dialogues between times, between the exiled and the lives they recommence, between gods and men. In terms of contemporary cinema, The Bowman's Whistle is the polyphonic remake of a classic, written with an expressiv
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Anne Holt
Blind Goddess
The first book in Edgar-nominated Anne Holt's international bestselling mystery series featuring detective Hanne Wilhelmsen.
A small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of the Norwegian capital, Oslo. A youn
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Maud Ventura
★★★★★
My Husband
She has a dream life – a beautiful house, two lovely children, a job she loves, and a husband who is perfect in every way. And yet, after fifteen years of marriage, she wants more – she wants to love each other like they did a
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Davorin Lenko
Psychoporn
"Psychoporn" is a collection of short and very short stories, with which Davorin Lenko opens a new chapter in his literary and creative pursuits.
As the title suggests, the stories deal with reality, with the flesh, as well as with the
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Jeff Schinker
Sabotage
In this book, which seems to compare the homeland of author Jeff Schinker with the multilingual situation in the Tower of Babel, the author confronts readers with the excesses and perversions in the sphere of labor and interpersonal
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Jean Reno
Emma
Marked by an incurable trauma, Emma’s life is suddenly turned upside down by an extraordinary set of circumstances, at the center of which is a fatal meeting with a high-ranking man from the Sultanate of Oman. The cozy solitude
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Amanda Weinberg
The Italian Bookshop Among the Vines
In a secluded Italian village, Jewish and Catholic families live side by side. As the storm clouds of war gather, everyone will have to make a heart-breaking choice to save the lives of those they love...
Bella's Jewish family has run the lo
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Elitza Gueorguieva
Odyssey of the Girls from the East
Like frames from a film, scenes from the lives of two Bulgarian women in France at the beginning of the new century alternate.
Armed with "The Great Encyclopedic Dictionary of Larousse" and "The Little Larousse of Good M
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Jostein Gaarder
The World According to Anna
When fifteen-year-old Anna begins receiving messages from another time, her parents take her to the doctor. But he can find nothing wrong; in fact he believes there may be some truth to what she is seeing. Anna is haunted by visions of the desolate
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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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Irvine Welsh
Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness. The main character, Mark Renton, is at the center of a clique of nihilisti
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Daniel Kehlmann
Cinema
Translating the title is both easy and difficult. It literally means play of light but is a a somewhat archaic German word for film or cinema, perhaps akin to the English moving picture.
The book is about the famous Austrian film director G. W
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Annette Bjergfeldt
Mr Saito’s Travelling Cinema
An infant is left in a shoebox on the doorstep of Buenos Aires’ Magdalene Monastery and is given the name Fabiola by the nuns. Early in life the rebellious Fabiola develops a propensity for finding the perfect pair of shoes for any give
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Salman Rushdie
Knife
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
• From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring — and surviving — an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him
On the mo
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Milan Kundera
Eighty-Nine Words / Prague: A Disappearing Poem
IRONY. Which character is right and which is wrong? Is Emma Bovary unbearable? Or bold and touching? No answer. The novel is by its very essence an ironic art, which means: its "truth" is hidden, unspoken and unutterable. Man wishes to see the s
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Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Yakov's Ladder
At first glance, Yacov’s Ladder perfectly embodies the generic definition of a “family saga.” The story of several generations of Osetskys, who were originally from Kiev and then transplanted to Moscow, spans an entire c
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Marta Dzido
The Clam
The Clam (2005) is Marta Dzido's first novel. The protagonist Magda is looking for a job, looking for true love, looking for herself. And she can't find them, she can't fit into reality, the world seems unfamiliar to her, everywhere she s
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Stavros Christodoulou
The Day the River Froze
Budapest, February 12, 1985. In the bitter cold, the river freezes over and a prophecy that sounds like a croak marks the birth of Janos: ‘bad seed, bad tidings’. Twenty-seven years later, the man who the oracle confirmed as ‘Jan
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Joël Dicker
The Book about Baltimore Family
Dicker’s third novel, Le Livre des Baltimore, was released on 26 September 2015.
Until the day of the Drama, there were two Goldman families. The Goldman Baltimore and the Goldman Montclair. Marcus Goldman descends
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Joël Dicker
The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer
After The Truth comes The Disappearance. Only Dicker could surpass himself.
The most powerful thriller in years: a work of enormous, constant ambition. Another sophisticated, addictive narrative mechanism.
The night of July 30, 1994, the plac
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Nathalie Skowronek
The Map of Regrets
Nathalie Skowronek’s La Carte des regrets (The Map of Regrets), one of the winners of the 2020 European Union Prize for Literature, is the story of Véronique, a charismatic editor at a Paris publishing house who is found d
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Joël Dicker
The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair
Joël Dicker's masterful literary thriller about a struggling writer who resolves to clear the name of an old friend accused of murder has been hailed as a great American novel despite its Swiss authorship. "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Af
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Joël Dicker
A Wild Animal
"A Wild Animal" is released in 2024. It all begins with the preparation and execution of an armed robbery of a jewelry store in Geneva. What is the connection of the masked assailants to the inhabitants of the opulent house with transparent walls in
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Emmy Abrahamson
How to Fall in Love with a Man Who Lives in a Bush
A fresh, hilarious and compulsively readable love story with the most wonderful kernel of truth to it.
An uplifting and clever read for fans of Graeme Simsion and Marian Keyes.
Julia is looking for Mr Right, but Ben is more Mr Right-No
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Leif Randt
Allegro Pastell
Allegro Pastell is an absorbing meditation on the nature of love in the twenty-first century, life after thirty, the danger of slipping into old patterns of behaviour, and what it means to be true to yourself.
The novel
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Amélie Nothomb
Fear and Trembling
A "comedy of Japanese business manners", Fear and Trembling (Stupeur et tremblements) ignores Amélie's life outside work, staying focused on her place in the Yumimoto corporate ecology, on her relationships with colleagues and her int
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Amélie Nothomb
Hygiene and the Assassin
An eighty-three year old Nobel prize winner author of twenty-two novels is found passed out at his home. Two months before his death of a rare cartilage cancer journalists from all over the world came to interview the viscious fat old man, loathin
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Brigitte Giraud
Live Fast
This autobiographical novel is the author’s dissection of a tragic moment in her life, allowing her to reflect upon the events that led to the motorcycle accident that cost the life of her husband Claude on June 22nd, 1999. Over twenty ye
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Balsam Karam
Singularity
In an unnamed coastal city home to many refugees, a mother of a displaced family searches for her child, calling her name as she wanders along the cliffside road where her daughter used to work. She searches and searches until, devoid of ho
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Therese Tungen
Love, or Something Like It
About love and what it does to us. For the persons we meet in this short story collection, the desire to be close to others is both a beautiful and a destructive force.
Magni can't forget the older lover she had as a young student. Erik r
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J. K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
The Casual Vacancy is a 2012 tragicomedy novel written by British author J.K. Rowling. The book was published worldwide by Little, Brown Book Group on 27 September 2012. It was Rowling's first publication since the Harry Potter series, her firs
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Mélissa Da Costa
All the Blue in the Sky
“A marvelous discovery.” – Elle
A moving and delightful story by the outbreak star of French literature.
"A 26-year-old young man, sentenced to a life of early Alzheimer’s, wants to hit the road for one last trip
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Niviaq Korneliussen
HOMO sapienne
HOMO sapienne follows the lives of five young people in the “little big city” of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. Each one is given a chapter in the book to narrate their feelings and experiences at a time in their lives, when
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Rosa Ventrella
A Decent Family
For fans of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series comes a captivating family saga focused on a willful young woman’s struggles against her oppressive small town by acclaimed Italian author Rosa Ventrella.
In old Bari, ever
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David Foenkinos
The Martins
This is the story of a writer who fell into a creative crisis and decided to write about the first person he met on the street. He comes across eighty-year-old Madeleine Tricot, whose life he will describe, as well as the li
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Frédéric Beigbeder
Confessions of a Slightly Retrogressive Heterosexual
Published by Albin Michel, Beigbeder's new book plays with mainstream ideas, taking us back to 2018, when French feminists attacked his house and car with pink insults reading "Here lives a rapist." His granddaughter's questions about this event ins
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Matthias Nawrat
The Sad Guest
The first-person narrator who roams through contemporary Berlin in The Sad Guest is a flickering, elusive being. The narrator is a writer, has already published three books and comes from Poland. But this novel is not autobiographical. The main cha
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Marc Levy
It Happened at Night
Let's hear the author:
“I usually give the floor to two characters. This time there are nine. I did my best to infiltrate their gang, and I succeeded. The nine characters of this book only know each other virtually, but they are true fr
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Kiril Eskov
The Gospel of Afranius
What if Bulgakov's Afranius, the chief of the secret guard at Pontius Pilate, had also written a gospel? And what if this gospel presents Jesus Christ as a secret agent of the Jewish procurator?
The book you hold in your hands is a witty and inge
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