EU Book Tour

This page is dedicated to my EU Book Tour. I’m adding book titles when I have the book at home. I will link reviews when I read them.

Here is a list of suggestions, if anyone is interested: EU_BOOK_TOUR_SUGGESTIONS 

 Austria

•  Brief einer Unbekannten by Stefan Zweig. 1922

French title : Lettre d’une Inconnue English title: Letter from an Unknown Woman

• Die Hochzeit von Lyon by Stefan Zweig

French title : Un mariage à Lyon. It’s a collection of short stories.

• Ruhm: Ein Roman in neun Geschichten by Daniel Kehlmann 2009

French title : Gloire English title: Fame, a Novel in Nine Episodes

• Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke. 1910French title : Les carnets de Malte Laurids Brigge English title: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 
• Lettres à Lou Andreas-Salome by Rainer Maria Rilke

• Hotel Savoy by Josef Roth. 1924
• Beton by Thomas Bernhard. 1982

 Belgium

 Bulgaria

 Cyprus

 Czech Republic

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 Denmark

• Piazza Bucarest by Jens Christian Grøndahl. 2004.

Not translated into English.

 Estonia

 Finland

• Hurmaava Joukkoitsemurha by Arto Paasilinna. 1990. 291 pages.

French title : Petits suicides entre amis. Not translated into English. I’ve asked to a Finnish acquaintance, the original title means Charming Mass-Suicide.

 France

For France, I’ve decided to read about overseas or the former colonies:

Indochina:

• Barrage contre le Pacifique by Marguerite Duras. 1950. 364 pages.

English title: The Sea Wall  

 Germany

Caroline (Beauty is a Sleeping Cat) posted German Literature Recommendations – 20 German Novels You Must Read and a great post about women writers here

• Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane. 1895

 Greece

• Les petites filles et la mort by Alexandre Papadiamantis. 1903. 189 pages.

English title : The Murderess.

 Hungary

•  Édes Anna by Dezsö Kosztolányi. 1926

French title: Anna la Douce English title : Anna Edes.

Guy, from His Futile Preoccupation, reviewed this one here.

• Aranysárkány by Dezsö Kosztolányi. 1925

French title: Le cerf-volant d’or English title : The Golden Kite

• A Pendragon legenda by Antal Szerb

         French title: La légende de Pendragon English title: The Pendragon Legend

Max, from Pechorin’s Journal, reviewed that book here.

 Ireland

• Dubliners by James Joyce. 1914

 Italy

• Il disprezzo by Alberto Moravia. 1954.

French title : Le Mépris English title : A Ghost at Noon or Contempt

• La Solitudine Dei Numeri Primi by Paolo Giordano

French title: La Solitude des nombres premiers. English title: The Solitude of Prime Numbers

• No due come un romanzo by Paola Calvetti

French title: L’amour est à la lettre A. English title: PO Box:  a novel of letters

• Un’anima persa by Giovanni Arpino

French title : Une âme perdue.  Not translated into English

• Seta by Alessandro Baricco

French title : Soie    English title: Silk

 Lettonie

 Lituania

 Luxembourg

 Malta

 Netherlands

• Sleuteloog by Hella S. Haasse. 2002.

             French title: L’anneau de la clé. Not translated into English

• Rituelen by Cees Nooteboom. 1980.

             French title : Rituels. English title : Rituals

•  Max Havelaar by Multatuli. 1860. 400 pages.

 

 Poland

 Portugal

 Romania

•  Der Mensch ist ein grosser Fasan auf der Welt by Herta Müller (1986).

French title: L’homme est un grand faisan sur la terre English title : The Passport.

  Slovakia

 Slovenia

  Spain

  Sweden

• Grabben i graven bredvid by Katarina Mazetti. 1998. 254 pages.

French title : Le mec de la tombe d’à côté.  English title : Benny & Shrimp. 

• Utvandrarna by Vilhelm Moberg

French title : La Saga des émigrants. English title : The Emigrants

 United Kingdom

England

• The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe. 2010

French title: La vie très privée de Maxwell Sim.

Scotland

• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. 1961

French title: Les belles années de Miss Brodie.

Wales

• On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin

French title: Les jumeaux de Black Hill