Contemporary European Fiction
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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Anne Eekhout
★★★★
Mary
The year is 1816 when Mary Shelly, only eighteen years of age, creates the iconic story of Frankenstein’s monster. It is the same summer that Mary and her lover Percy Shelley visit Lord Byron and John Polidori at Lake Geneva. The
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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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Paolo Giordano
Tasmania
"Tasmania" is a novel about the future. The future we fear, but also dream of, that we will hardly have, but can still build. The general feeling in our age is that we are already losing control of the world and ourselves, and Paolo Giordano's
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Dacia Maraini
★★★★
Dear Pier Paolo
Dacia Maraini was one of Pier Paolo Pasolini's closest friends, with whom she shared readings, film projects and even a house, when Dacia had the writer Alberto Moravia as a partner. The three traveled the world and especially Africa,
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Pedro Almodóvar
★★★★★
The Last Dream
"The Last Dream", which Pedro Almodóvar describes as a “fragmentary autobiography” and a “little cryptic”, contains 12 stories that reflect common themes of his cinematic work, including comedy, autofiction, parody, p
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Giulia Caminito
The Water of the Lake Is Never Sweet
Winner of Premio Campiello 2021
Winner of Premio Strega Off 2021
Among the 5 finalists of Premio Strega 2021
Gaia was born into a troubled family: her mother, Antonia, had four children, the first at just seventeen by a good-for-nothing la
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Made Luiga (Mudlum)
Polish Boys
"Polish Boys" is a story of young bohemian-intellectuals who have settled in old dilapidated buildings and who follow their ideals. The plot unfolds in socialist Poland but space and time are irrelevant and can be seen as an allegory.
"Polish Boy
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Victoria Amelina
★★★★★
The Fall Syndrome, or Homo Compatiens
Kostya is an ordinary Ukrainian, a product of our time. Politics and Maidan protests are of little interest to him. But the subtitle of the novel "Homo Compatiens" - the man who sympathizes suggests: the main character will not be able t
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Dejan Tiago Stanković
Zamalek
"Zamalek" is a novel that, at first, seems like a travelogue full of descriptions of strange customs, a lexicon of exotic terms or some twisted Baedeker or travel guidebook about Egypt. Little by little, from newly discovered aspects of
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Pierre Lemaitre
Mirror of Our Sorrows
"Tremendous and enjoyable" - La Libre Belgique
"A great success" - La Croix
April, 1940. Louise Belmont runs, naked, down the boulevard du Montparnasse. To understand the tragic scene she has just experienced, she will have to plunge i
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Christos Kythreotis
★★★★★
Where We Live
The work covers a single day - June 20, 2014 - and in this respect many critics have drawn parallels with James Joyce's Odyssey and Heinrich Böll's Billiards at Half-past Nine. And the epigraph is an excerpt from "Days" by the English poet P
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Faruk Šehić
Clockwork Stories
Fifteen stories, fifteen pieces of life against the background of the brutal war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s. On the border between real and imaginary, with shades of surrealism and magical realism, war scenes alternate, dreams o
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Anneet Grigoryan
Octopus
Alexander's contract with the bank in Nagoya where he worked is expiring and he must return home to Russia. But before that, the young man decides to visit the small fishing island of Himakajima, where he is involved in complicated relation
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Margaret Mazzantini
Morning Sea
From the multi-award-winning author of Twice Born comes this dazzling, emotionally charged tale of two mothers’ fight to protect their children’s futures
When the water is safer than the land...
As Gaddafi clings to power in Libya
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Delphine de Vigan
The Children Are Kings
The book takes us back to the heart of the 2000s. It opens with the disappearance of the daughter of the Youtubeuse star Mélanie Claux, the little Kimmy Diore aged six, later turns into a thriller without warning, before end
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Irene Solà
When I Sing, Mountains Dance
When Domenec – mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer – dies suddenly, struck by lightning, he leaves behind two small children, Mia and Hilari, to grow up wild among the looming summits of the Pyrenees and the ghosts of the Spanish ci
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Jonathan Littell
An Old Story
The novel An Old Story is inspired by the novella with the same title originally published by Fata Morgana in 2012. In this impressive literary novel, the author has developed and extended ideas from the novella, creating an original
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Charly Delwart
Databiography
What is it like to narrate your life quantitatively? That is the question this book tackles. Charly Delwart – both author and main character – has always asked about everything. When he discovered while reading a statistic that th
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Danijel Gatarić
Libreto
Spain's labor protests and Catalonia's struggles for independence. Damir Romić, a migrant from Bosnia and Herzegovina, works as a security guard at a cigarette factory. He is in love with the mysteriously missing Maria, with the Babylonian g
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Jacopo De Michelis
The Station
Conspiracy and adventure at Milan Central Station, from where the trains of deported Jews left during World War II.
Milan, April 2003. Riccardo Mezzanotte is a young police inspector, who recently joined the Railway Police at Milan Central Stat
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Frederico Pedreira
The Sleepwalker's Lesson
A boy obsessed with losing weight spends his endless summer holidays at his grandparents’ home – the iconic "green house" where his father and six uncles once lived, leaving behind a treasure of objects and memories. With his b
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Françoise Sagan
Hello Sadness / Do you like Brahms...
The novel "Hello Sadness" received the Critics' Award in 1954. The title is derived from a poem by Paul Éluard, À peine défigurée. An English-language film adaptation was released in 1958, directed by Otto Preminger.
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Frédéric Beigbeder
Love Lasts Three Years
The narrator is Marc Marronier, a shallow, superficial, rich Parisian who works as an advertising executive, but concentrates much of his energy on frequenting the demimonde of Parisian clubs and bars. It's a world Beigbeder is all too fam
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Irene Vallejo
★★★★★
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
A rich exploration of the importance of books and libraries in the ancient world that highlights how humanity’s obsession with the printed word has echoed throughout the ages
• “Accessible and entertaining.” &mda
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Ian McEwan
★★★★★
Lessons
From the best-selling author of Atonement and Saturday comes the epic and intimate story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals. From the Suez Crisis to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall to the current pan
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