Contemporary European Fiction

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<span>Algot, Anna Stina and the Water of Life</span>
Jonas Jonasson

Algot, Anna Stina and the Water of Life

This time, Jonasson takes us to Sweden in the mid-19th century—a time of famine and misery.
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The Portrait of Silence
Tessy Baila

The Portrait of Silence

The Portrait of Silence is a novel about the timeless existential anxieties of humankind. Its pages reveal the image of a virtuoso musician who is lost in his feelings, searching and dissatisfied with his surroundings,
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Serotonin
Michel Houellebecq

Serotonin

Florent-Claude Labrouste is dying of sadness. Despised by his girlfriend and on the brink of career failure, his last hope for relief comes in the form of a newly available antidepressant that alters the brain's release of serotonin.
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A Sickness That Does Not Exist
Giulia Caminito

A Sickness That Does Not Exist

In our fast-paced and neurotic modern world, a young man named Loris finds himself at a crossroads between his childhood memories and the surrounding world of adulthood, where he feels misunderstood and rejected.
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Platform
Michel Houellebecq
★★★★★

Platform

In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.
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Your Promise
Camille Laurens

Your Promise

Why does Claire Lancel have to defend herself in court? What happened to her companion and to her? 
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Mona's Eyes
Thomas Schlesser
★★★★★

Mona's Eyes

Fifty-two weeks. That's all the time Mona has left to learn about beauty before she loses her eyesight forever.
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<span>The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes</span>
Tatiana Tibuleac

The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes

Aleksy still remembers the last summer he spent with his mother in Northern France. At eighteen, eager to fly the nest and escape a family still grief-stricken by the death of his sister years earlier, these lazy months in the countryside are akin to torture. 
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He Only Dreamed of Places Now and of the Lions on the Beach
Gérard de Cortanze

He Only Dreamed of Places Now and of the Lions on the Beach

July 1960. In the quiet haven of Villa Finca Vigia near Havana, Ernest Hemingway finds writing increasingly difficult. Suffering from creative impotence, tired, exhausted, and depressed, he leaves for Spain with the intention of finishing his book on bullfighting.
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Don't Move
Margaret Mazzantini

Don't Move

A rainy morning with birds that soil the streets, a girl at fifteen slips and falls off of the motocycle. A fast ambulance to the hospital. The same where her father works as a surgeon. Freezed of ansia Timoteo who has been conside
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<span>The Map and the Territory</span>
Michel Houellebecq

The Map and the Territory

Having made his name with an exhibition of photographs of Michelin roadmaps – beautiful works that won praise from every corner of the art world – Jed Martin is now emerging from a ten-year hiatus. 
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The Rain Man
Jonas Karlsson

The Rain Man

Ingmar Carlsson is a grumpy old man who lives in a small country town in Sweden, doesn't communicate with anyone and refuses to follow the unwritten rules of the local community. After losing his beloved wife, the only thing that gives meani
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Submission
Michel Houellebecq

Submission

François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the Sorbonne and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century "decadent" author. 
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One Lonely Man
Fr&#233;d&#233;ric Beigbeder

One Lonely Man

His last work, "One Lonely Man", could easily have been titled "A Tale of My Father". Frédéric Begbédér turns Jean-Michel Begbédér into a true hero of a novel. 
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<span>The Book of the Sisters</span>
Am&#233;lie Nothomb

The Book of the Sisters

Tristan, the unwanted child of a pair of parents too obsessed with each other, finds love when her younger sister Leticia is born. 
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Three Horses
Erri de Luca

Three Horses

“A man's life lasts as long as that of three horses,” says an insight learned by the novel's narrator, an Italian with keen senses and a deep soul who works as a gardener and whose constant companion is old books. Three horses - three lives. 
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Atonement
Ian McEwan
★★★★★

Atonement

Set in 1935 England, this “New York Times” bestseller is enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class, making it a profound-- and profoundly moving--exploration of shame and forgiveness, of atonement and the
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<span>Broken Country</span>
Clare Leslie Hall

Broken Country

"The farmer is dead, he's dead, and all anyone cares about is who killed him." 
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Broadening the Field of Struggle
Michel Houellebecq

Broadening the Field of Struggle

It’s a first person narrative by a man of 31 whose name is never told. He is Our Hero. He’s a single Parisian programmer who works for an IT company that has just won a contract with the Ministère de l’A
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The Elementary Particles
Michel Houellebecq
★★★★★

The Elementary Particles

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is an strikingly original novel that plunges headfirst into the ills and pains of the contemporary man.
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<span>Victory City</span>
Salman Rushdie

Victory City

Salman Rushdie's literary return to his native India.
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<span>Minerva's Matchbook</span>
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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An Almost Perfect World
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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<span>Minerva's Matchbook</span>
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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<span>The Scent of Freedom</span>
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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<span>Stones of Loneliness</span>
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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The Mutations
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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Soldiers of Salamis
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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Black Heart
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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The Next Day
M&#233;lissa 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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The Bowman's Whistle
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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Blind Goddess
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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My Husband
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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Psychoporn
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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Sabotage
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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Emma
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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The Italian Bookshop Among the Vines
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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Odyssey of the Girls from the East
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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The World According to Anna
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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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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Trainspotting
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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Cinema
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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Mr Saito’s Travelling Cinema
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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Knife
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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Eighty-Nine Words / Prague: A Disappearing Poem
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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Yakov's Ladder
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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The Clam
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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The Day the River Froze
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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