60 Books for Summer

MEP
Monica Macovei
Romania

Non-fiction

#rezist. Proteste împotriva OUG 13/2017

AAVV | 2017

#rezist. Proteste împotriva OUG 13/2017

#resist. Protests against GEO 13/2017

Non-fiction

AAVV
Romania | 2017

An album documenting the protests against GEO 13/2017, the largest protest in the history of post-revolutionary Romania, with contributions from photographers, leading journalists, analysts and people of culture.

Original language: Romanian
ISBN 9786065889446

MEP
Monica Macovei
Romania

This book is a testimony of a moral revolution born out of indignation, a document about the civilization of dignity and the civism of principles. Over 600 people took the streets all over Romania in January-March 2017 against the Gov. decision to change the Criminal Codes to their benefits and escape of criminal sentences.The messages on the planters used by the protesters betray a fabulous creativity, humor, irony, honesty and intransigence. A true proof of the mobilizing power of words.

MEP
Anne Sander
France

Fiction

Ce que l'homme a cru voir

| 2018

Ce que l'homme a cru voir

Fiction

France | 2018

You never know what the past has in store for you. An initiatory journey of great power, carried by a carnal, sensitive, intense writing. (Description from Babelio)

Original language: French
ISBN 9782246859734

MEP
Anne Sander
France

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Pernille Weiss
Denmark

Fiction

Det gør du ikke

| 2010

Det gør du ikke

Fiction

Denmark | 2010

Lawyer David and his English wife Emma stayed together while everyone around them was in divorce, but now their intimacy is suddenly threatened. Their daughter Zoë has her first exhibition as an artist and visits her parents with her new friend, a Pakistani. David and Emma are convinced that his background is not important, but they both get confused by their attempts to confirm it. They are confronted with the choices, events and relationships that have shaped their lives. Were the sacrifices worthwhile? And how do you know if you really love someone? With great empathy and insight, Grøndahl describes in That you do not know the thoughts and feelings of his main characters, so that they crawl under your skin and leave an unforgettable impression.

Original language: Danish
ISBN 9788703045825

MEP
Pernille Weiss
Denmark

MEP
Esther de Lange
the Netherlands

Fiction

Mothering Sunday

Graham Swift | 2016

Mothering Sunday

Fiction

Graham Swift
UK | 2016

Twenty-two year old Jane Fairchild, orphaned at birth, has worked as a maid at one English country estate since she was sixteen. And for almost all of those years she has been the secret lover to Paul Sheringham, the scion of the estate next door. On an unseasonably warm March afternoon, Jane and Paul will make love for the last time--though not, as Jane believes, because Paul is about to be married--and the events of the day will alter Jane's life forever.

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9781101947524

MEP
Esther de Lange
the Netherlands

Fiction

Die Hauptstadt

Robert Menasse | 2017

Die Hauptstadt

The Capital

Fiction

Robert Menasse
Austria | 2017

Fenia Xenapoulou is facing a career setback. She is to revamp the boring image of the European Commission. Her assistant suggests proclaiming Auschwitz as the birthplace of the European Commission. Fenia is thrilled, but she didn’t take the other EU nations into account. and she can’t count on David de Vriend, one of the last living witnesses, any longer: he runs to the metro station Maalbeek at the wrong time...

Original language: German
Available in: Dutch, Hungarian
ISBN 9783518427583

MEP
Esther de Lange
the Netherlands

EU nerds will spot some inaccuracies, but it’s good to read a fiction book set in Brussels for once. The book is a good read in itself, while teaching readers along the way about the history of Europe and the EU.

MEP
Radosław Sikorski
Poland

Fiction

Lucky Bastard

| 1998

Lucky Bastard

Fiction

USA | 1998

John Fitzgerald Adams, a charming liar and womanizer who is convinced that he is the bastard son of JFK, runs for President in a campaign organized and financed by a foreign secret service. A darkly entertaining study of sex and power in the era of the Clinton White House.

Original language: English
ISBN 9780679447610

MEP
Radosław Sikorski
Poland

MEP
Inese Vaidere
Latvia

Autobiography

Pieci pirksti

| 2013

Pieci pirksti

Five Fingers

Autobiography

Latvia | 2013

Based on the author's life, and written in lush language that defies the narrative's many hardships, Five Fingers tells the story of a girl who moves between worlds in the hopes of finding a Latvia that she can call home.

Original language: Latvian
ISBN 9789934120244

MEP
Inese Vaidere
Latvia

The novel “Pieci pirksti” illustrates how the Soviet occupation has changed Latvia through the eyes of the five-year-old Laura who has just returned home from Siberia. It was easy for me to identify myself with her because my father was deported to Siberia, too

MEP
Carlos Zorrinho
Portugal

Fiction

O terrorista elegante e outras histórias

| 2019

O terrorista elegante e outras histórias

The Elegant Terrorist and other stories

Fiction

Brazil | 2019

Mia Couto and José Eduardo Agualusa release 'The Elegant Terrorist and Other Stories', the first four-handed work written by the two authors. This project is born from their friendship and brings together three short stories based on theater plays written together by the two. (Description from Platform Media)

Original language: Portuguese
ISBN

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Carlos Zorrinho
Portugal

MEP
Malin Björk
Sweden

Fiction

Bitterfittan 2

Maria Sveland | 2017

Bitterfittan 2

Bitter Bitch 2

Fiction

Maria Sveland
Sweden | 2017

Ten years have passed since Sara left her husband and children for a week's pause in Tenerife. Family hell had drained her energy, she was bitter and tired. Now she finally divorced from her husband. But to start life as single people is significantly more complicated than she would have imagined.

Original language: Swedish
ISBN 9789173436427

MEP
Malin Björk
Sweden

MEP
Julie Ward
United Kingdom

Fiction

The Holy Woman

Qaisra Shahraz | 2001

The Holy Woman

Fiction

Qaisra Shahraz
UK/Pakistan | 2001

Set in contemporary Pakistan, London and Egypt, the Holy Woman is a powerful and compelling family drama. A romantic story of love and betrayal set in a wealthy Muslim community, with all the pressures and conflicts that modern life and old traditions bring.

Original language: English
ISBN 978-1782398479

MEP
Julie Ward
United Kingdom

MEP
Malin Björk
Sweden

Fiction

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi | 2016

Homegoing

Fiction

Yaa Gyasi
USA | 2016

Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort, while her sister, Esi, is imprisoned and sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast's booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery.

Original language: English
Available in: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish
ISBN 9781101947135

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Malin Björk
Sweden

MEP
Sirpa Pietikäinen
Finland

Fiction

Manual de zoología fantástica

| 1957

Manual de zoología fantástica

Book of Imaginary Beings

Fiction

Argentina | 1957

A lavish feast of exotica brought vividly to life with art commissioned specifically for this volume, The Book of Imaginary Beings will delight readers of classic fantasy as well as Borges' many admirers.

Original language: Spanish
ISBN 9789681604042

MEP
Sirpa Pietikäinen
Finland

MEP
Eva Maydell
Bulgaria

Fiction

A good year

Peter Mayle | 2004

A good year

Fiction

Peter Mayle
UK | 2004

Max Skinner has recently lost his job at a London financial firm and just as recently learned that he has inherited his late uncle's vineyard in Provence. On arrival he finds the climate delicious, the food even better, and two of the locals ravishing. Unfortunately, the wine produced on his new property is swill. Why then are so many people interested in it?

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, Italian, German, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish
ISBN 9780307277756

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Eva Maydell
Bulgaria

MEP
Miapetra Kumpula-Natri
Finland

Fiction

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Arundhati Roy | 2017

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Fiction

Arundhati Roy
India | 2017

Anjum, who used to be Aftab, unrolls a threadbare carpet in a city graveyard that she calls home. A baby appears quite suddenly on a pavement, in a crib of litter. The enigmatic Tilottama is as much of a presence as she is an absence in the lives of the three men who love her. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is at once an aching love story and a decisive remonstration.

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9780670089635

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Miapetra Kumpula-Natri
Finland

In the summer it’s worth getting out of Europe for a little while. Roy’s second book isn’t a light read, instead it deals with some of the darkest episodes of modern Indian history, but the excellent narration makes one want to keep reading and not look away.

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Petra De Sutter
Belgium

Fiction

Los enamoramientos

| 2011

Los enamoramientos

The Infatuations

Fiction

Spain | 2011

Each day before work María Dolz stops at the same café. There she finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Observing their seemingly perfect life helps her escape the listlessness of her own. But when the man is brutally murdered and María approaches the widow to offer her condolences, what began as mere observation turns into an increasingly complicated entanglement. Invited into the widow’s home, she meets–and falls in love with–a man who sheds disturbing new light on the crime. As María recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly encased in a metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, chance and coincidence, and above all, with the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.

Original language: Spanish
ISBN 9788420407135

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Petra De Sutter
Belgium

MEP
Liliana Rodrigues
Portugal

História de Um Idiota Contada por Ele Mesmo

Félix de Azúa | 1986

História de Um Idiota Contada por Ele Mesmo

Story of an idiot told by himself

Félix de Azúa
Spain | 1986

The protagonist of this novel is a twentieth-century idiot. Victim of the zoological folly of the European postwar period, our character is engaged in an eager and monothematic investigation on happiness, which leads him inexorably to ruin.

Original language: Spanish
Available in: Dutch, French, German, Greek, Romanian
ISBN 9788433920751

MEP
Liliana Rodrigues
Portugal

MEP
Helga Stevens
Belgium

Non-fiction

Sovjetistan

Erika Fatland | 2014

Sovjetistan

Non-fiction

Erika Fatland
Norway | 2014

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. Fascinating Central Asian countries that lost their own identity in the Soviet era. What is left of that Soviet influence, now that they have been independent for more than a quarter of a century?

Original language: Norwegian
Available in: Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Swedish
ISBN 9788248914853

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Helga Stevens
Belgium

As member of the EP Delegation for Central Asia this book helped me to understand the 5 different Central Asian states better. Also provided me with interesting and useful historical insight regarding Russia and these countries. My parents gave it to me as a Christmas gift.

MEP
Milan Zver
Slovenia

Fiction

To noč sem jo videl

Drago Jančar | 2010

To noč sem jo videl

That Night I Saw Her

Fiction

Drago Jančar
Slovenia | 2010

A love story in time of war told from the perspecive of five different characters, this is a novel about a few years in the life and mysterious disappearance of Veronika Zarnik, a young bourgeois woman from Ljubljana, sucked into the whirlwind of a turbulent period in history.

Original language: Slovenian
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Macedonian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian
ISBN 9789612414580

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Milan Zver
Slovenia

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Michaela Šojdrová
Czech Republic

Cookery

Vůně chleba

| 2016

Vůně chleba

The smell of Bread

Cookery

Czech Republic | 2016

Bread has been, is and will be a part of our lives. So why not bake it in the comfort of your home? This book offers a wide range of tasty and fragrant recipes, the key to recognizing different types of cereals and, most importantly, a simple guide on how not to be afraid to bake. Very useful book during the time of the coronavirus crisis

Original language: Czech
ISBN 9788024932217

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Michaela Šojdrová
Czech Republic

MEP
Artis Pabriks
Latvia

Poetry

Epifānijas

Imants Ziedonis | 1978

Epifānijas

Epiphanies

Poetry

Imants Ziedonis
Latvia | 1978

A collection of Epiphanies -- peculiar poems in prose, labeled with the ancient Greek name of the genre. Emotional-journalistic dialogues with the reader, philosophical reflections on life by famous Latvian poet Imants Ziedonis.

Original language: Latvian
Available in: Estonian, Hungarian, Swedish
ISBN 9789934110078

MEP
Artis Pabriks
Latvia

MEP
Seán Kelly
Ireland

Fiction

That They May Face the Rising Sun

John McGahern | 2001

That They May Face the Rising Sun

Fiction

John McGahern
Ireland | 2001

John McGahern brings to vivid life the world and the people of a contemporary Irish village.It is a village flirting with the more sophisticated trappings of modernity but steeped in the traditions of its unforgettable inhabitants and their lives. With deceptive simplicity and eloquence, the author reveals the fundamental workings of human nature as it encounters the extraordinary trials and pleasures, terrors and beauty, of ordinary life.

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, Dutch, French
ISBN 9780571212217

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Seán Kelly
Ireland

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Ruža Tomašić
Croatia

Fiction

Cardinal of the Kremlin

Tom Clancy | 1988

Cardinal of the Kremlin

Fiction

Tom Clancy
USA | 1988

A classic spy thriller, dealing with with CIA, KGB, spies and counter-intelligence, set in the Cold War during the race to build the first Star Wars missile defense system.

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9780425116845

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Ruža Tomašić
Croatia

MEP
Brando Benifei
Italy

Fiction

Resistere non serve a niente

Walter Siti | 2012

Resistere non serve a niente

Resistance is futile

Fiction

Walter Siti
Italy | 2012

This is the story of Tommaso, a former obese child brilliant in maths who turned into a finance juggler full of good intentions. He moves in a world where money commands and deforms, where possession is the only value, the body is like a currency and violence is a commercial advantage. Siti depicts in this book the famous “grey zone” that lays between finance and crime, where yielding bankers, rogue brokers, corrupted politicians and second-generation criminals roam free in their natural habitat.

Original language: Italian
Available in: English, French
ISBN 9788817058469

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Brando Benifei
Italy

MEP
Merja Kyllönen
Finland

Non-fiction

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Naomi Klein | 2014

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Non-fiction

Naomi Klein
USA | 2014

Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon – it's about capitalism. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestseller No Logo, exposes the myths that are clouding climate debate.

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, French, Finnish, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian
ISBN 9781451697384

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Merja Kyllönen
Finland

MEP
Isabel Santos
Portugal

Fiction

O Cônsul

| 1991

O Cônsul

The Consul

Fiction

Portugal | 1991

Glassy footsteps resounded in the consulate's garden; perhaps it would be the echoes of the German cardas treading the stones of France, marching along the quay of Bordeaux. No, it wasn't the soldiers 'boots yet, but the boys' run over the gravel to shatter in the Consul's ears. The crying and laughter of these children from the most varied nations, who were waiting around the house, knocking knockers, repeating in their senses all prolonged cries for help. Reread the instructions sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He found no semicolon or comma that would forward the direction in order to allow him to grant visas, at least to those who were most in danger with the Nazis. How to do it without risking your career? How can someone trapped in the world of things by a dozen mouths that ask for bread, and also by the very concrete chains of abundance, comfort and success, detach themselves from them by the abstract idea of doing well without looking at whom?

Original language: Portuguese
ISBN 9789727805891

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Isabel Santos
Portugal

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Isabel Wiseler-Lima
Luxembourg

Fiction

Le Petit Prince

| 1943

Le Petit Prince

The Little Prince

Fiction

France | 1943

Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the vagaries of adult behaviour through a series of extraordinary encounters. His personal odyssey culminates in a voyage to Earth and further adventures.

Original language: French
ISBN 9783125971400

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Isabel Wiseler-Lima
Luxembourg

A classical one for older kids and adults who didn’t lost the spirit of their younger years

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Miapetra Kumpula-Natri
Finland

Non-fiction

Putinin trollit

| 2019

Putinin trollit

Putin's Trolls

Non-fiction

Finland | 2019

Russia is waging an online war against civilians. Every critical voice is the enemy. Resources are not saved and laws are ignored when it comes to silencing critics. The book presents in detail the black-and-white painting operations carried out in Finland and several other Western countries, which have been machined and approved by the Kremlin.

Original language: Finnish
ISBN 9789510438299

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Miapetra Kumpula-Natri
Finland

MEP
Petra De Sutter
Belgium

Fiction

The tattooist of Auschwitz

| 2018

The tattooist of Auschwitz

Fiction

United Kingdom | 2018

A vivid, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful re-creation of Lale Sokolov's experiences as the man who tattooed the arms of thousands of prisoners with what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is also a testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions.

Original language: English
ISBN 9780062870674

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Petra De Sutter
Belgium

MEP
Luděk Niedermayer
Czech Republic

Fiction

Žert

Milan Kundera | 1967

Žert

The Joke

Fiction

Milan Kundera
Czech Republic | 1967

Milan Kundera's first novel about a joke that will change forever the main charcter's life. Ludvik Jahn, attempting to show his girlfriend a bit of charm and a sense of humor, wrote in a postcard to her: "Optimism is the opium of mankind! A healthy spirit stinks of stupidity! Long live Trotsky!"

Original language: Czech
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9788071082873

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Luděk Niedermayer
Czech Republic

One of my favourite books, I have read it several times and I plan on reading it once again. I might even add something else from Kundera.

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Viviane Reding
Luxembourg

Fiction

Les loyautés

Delphine de Vigan | 2018

Les loyautés

Fiction

Delphine de Vigan
France | 2018

Theo, the child of divorce, brings his friend Mathis on dangerous paths. His teacher Hélène - who was abused as a child, worries that Theo might be in danger in his family. Mathis' mother, needs support to protect her son. The loyalties are all the invisible links that connect and chain these four characters one to the other.

Original language: French
Available in: German, Italian
ISBN 9782709661584

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Viviane Reding
Luxembourg

Découverte des démons silencieux

MEP
Pernille Weiss
Denmark

Children's Book

De tre grottornas berg

| 2003

De tre grottornas berg

Three Cave Mountain

Children's Book

Sweden | 2003

Mina wakes up one night to find that a crocodile has bitten her on the bottom. Her tired parents don't recognise the seriousness of the situation, but Mina's Grandpa knows what to do. He takes Mina, her sister, and their cousins on a dangerous journey up Three Cave Mountain.

Original language: Swedish
ISBN 9789129658750

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Pernille Weiss
Denmark

MEP
Artis Pabriks
Latvia

Fiction

Svina garša

Māris Bērziņš | 2015

Svina garša

"Lead taste"

Fiction

Māris Bērziņš
Latvia | 2015

The everyday life in the first years of the war (1939 - 1941) in Riga as seen from the eyes of an ordinary man: Matīsa Birkena, a painter who, in spite of everything, is in search for love. A novel about people, friendship,evil, courage and, of course, about love. This book is part of a novel series called "We. Latvia, XX century", which helps the reader understand the complex history of Latvia in the XX cetury.

Original language: Latvian
ISBN 9789984887814

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Artis Pabriks
Latvia

MEP
Annie Schreijer-Pierik
the Netherlands

Travel guide

Twaalf Twentse tochten

Truus Wijnen | 2014

Twaalf Twentse tochten

Twelve Twentse Tours

Travel guide

Truus Wijnen
the Netherlands | 2014

Twelve circular walks to discover the Dutch Twente region at its best.

Original language: Dutch
ISBN 9789078641339

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Annie Schreijer-Pierik
the Netherlands

MEP
Esther de Lange
Netherlands

Non-fiction

De Bourgondiërs

| 2019

De Bourgondiërs

The Burgundians

Non-fiction

Netherlands | 2019

‘The Burgundians’ takes the reader on a journey through a thousand years of European history, calling at cities such as Dijon, Paris, Lille, Ghent, Bruges and Delft, up to the time when the Seventeen Provinces arose and the Burgundian Empire came to an end. It tells a scintillating account of pyres and banquets, plagues and jousts, Joan of Arc, Jan van Eyck, Philip the Good and the Golden Fleece. (Description from Flanders Literature)

Original language: Dutch
ISBN 9789403139005

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Esther de Lange
Netherlands

MEP
Isabel Wiseler-Lima
Luxembourg

Non-fiction

Chine, le grand paradoxe

| 2019

Chine, le grand paradoxe

Non-fiction

France | 2019

"For many Europeans, China is a threat. This fear is linked to our ignorance of this" complicated East ", often paradoxical. However, in fifty years, I have learned how exciting it is to build fruitful relationships with this immense culture. Building authentic relationships with what has become the second economic power on the planet is a requirement for Europe, at a time when our increasingly unpredictable American ally does not hesitate to weaken the old continent for defend his interests. At a time when, above all, to resist the enduring conflict between China and the United States, the European nations must constitute a veritable third force so as not to be condemned to go out of history. Five decades after Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber's American Challenge, I would like, by encouraging a better understanding of a country that will occupy an ever-increasing part of our future, to propose an "action book", likely to help a necessary European awakening. " Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Original language: French
ISBN 9782749939155

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Isabel Wiseler-Lima
Luxembourg

A book relevant to our times, realist, does not stop at describing and warning but shows paths.

MEP
Malin Björk
Sweden

Fiction

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad | 1899

Heart of Darkness

Fiction

Joseph Conrad
UK | 1899

Dark allegory describes the narrator's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region.

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9780141441672

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Malin Björk
Sweden

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Emmanuel Maurel
France

Fiction

Le Royaume

| 2014

Le Royaume

The Kingdom

Fiction

France | 2014

The sensational international bestseller from one of France's most fêted writers - an epic novel telling the story of Christianity as it has never been told before, and one man's crisis of faith.

Original language: French
ISBN 9782818021187

MEP
Emmanuel Maurel
France

MEP
Eva Maydell
Bulgaria

Short stories

East of the West: A Country in Stories

Miroslav Penkov | 2011

East of the West: A Country in Stories

Short stories

Miroslav Penkov
USA / Bulgaria | 2011

A grandson tries to buy the corpse of Lenin on eBay for his Communist grandfather. A failed wunderkind steals a golden cross from an Orthodox church. A boy meets his cousin (the love of his life) once every five years in the river that divides their village into east and west. These are Miroslav Penkov's strange, unexpectedly moving visions of his home country, Bulgaria, and they are the stories that make up his beguiling and deeply felt debut.

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish
ISBN 9780374117337

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Eva Maydell
Bulgaria

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Carlos Zorrinho
Portugal

Essay

Uma beleza que nos pertence

| 2019

Uma beleza que nos pertence

A Beauty that Belongs to Us

Essay

Portugal | 2019

A collection of aphorisms and quotes by José Tolentino Mendonça - about the meaning of life, the beauty of things, the presence of God. (Description translated from Quetzal)

Original language: Portuguese
ISBN 9789897226311

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Carlos Zorrinho
Portugal

MEP
Miapetra Kumpula-Natri
Finland

Fiction

The Sorrow of Belgium

Hugo Claus | 1983

The Sorrow of Belgium

Fiction

Hugo Claus
Belgium | 1983

A searing, scathingly funny portrait of a wartime Belgium and one boy's coming of age-emotionally, sexually, and politically. Epic in scope, by turns hilarious and elegiac, The masterwork of one of the world's greatest contemporary authors.

Original language: Dutch
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9781585672387

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Miapetra Kumpula-Natri
Finland

Sometimes it feels like the EU bubble segregates us MEPs from the Belgian culture, and my project for this spring has been to read books from Belgian authors. Hugo Claus’ best-known work about the German occupation of Belgium and it’s aftermath is really worth reading.

MEP
Merja Kyllönen
Finland

Fiction

Sandmannen

Lars Kepler | 2012

Sandmannen

The Sandman

Fiction

Lars Kepler
Sweden | 2012

During a cold winter night in Stockholm a man is found walking alongside a railway bridge, suffering from hypothermia and legionella. After he's rushed to the hospital, it's discovered that, according to a death certificate, the man has been dead for over seven years. As Joona Linna investigates where the "dead man" has been all these years, some unexpected evidence leads to the reopening of a cold case. Danger is imminent.

Original language: Swedish
Available in: Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Italian, Spanish, Slovak, Polish, Portuguese
ISBN 9789100130169

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Merja Kyllönen
Finland

MEP
Emmanuel Maurel
France

Non-fiction

Anatomía de un instante

| 2009

Anatomía de un instante

The Anatomy of a Moment

Non-fiction

Spain | 2009

Critically adored novelist Javier Cercas originally set out to write a novel about this pivotal moment, but determined it had already gained an air of myth, or, through the annual broadcast of video clips, had at least acquired the fictional taint of reality television. Cercas turned to nonfiction, and his vivid descriptions of the archival footage frame a narrative that traverses the line between history and art, creating a daring new account of this watershed moment in modern Spanish history. The Anatomy of a Moment caused a sensation upon its publication in Spain, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. The story will be new to many American readers, but the book stands resolutely on its own as a compelling literary inquest of national myth, personal memory, political spectacle, and reality itself.

Original language: Spanish
ISBN 9788439722137

MEP
Emmanuel Maurel
France

MEP
Viviane Reding
Luxembourg

Essays

La vraie vie

Alain Badiou | 2016

La vraie vie

The Real Life

Essays

Alain Badiou
France | 2016

At Socrate's time, the philosphers were accused of corrupting the youth. Adopting this point of view, Alain Badiou comes to corrupt youth by talking about what life can offer, why it is absolutely necessary to change the world and why it is necessary to take some risks.

Original language: French
ISBN 9782213700441

MEP
Viviane Reding
Luxembourg

Une relecture de Socrate

MEP
Mikuláš Peksa
Czech Republic

Non-fiction

Swarmwise: The Tactical Manual to Changing the World

| 2016

Swarmwise: The Tactical Manual to Changing the World

Non-fiction

Sweden | 2016

Swarmwise is a tactical guide to changing the world using cost-efficient swarm methodology. It is a leadership handbook that outlines how the Swedish Pirate Party was able to beat the competition on less than one percent of their election budget, and shows how any cash- and time-strapped manager can copy the methodology, whether the goal is social, business, or political.

Original language: English
ISBN 9781463533151

MEP
Mikuláš Peksa
Czech Republic

MEP
Marc Angel
Luxembourg

Fiction

Olive, Again

| 2019

Olive, Again

Fiction

USA | 2019

The iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but also the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment, a nurse who confesses a secret high school crush, or a lawyer who struggles with an inheritance she does not want to accept, the unforgettable Olive will continue to startle us, to move us, and to inspire moments of transcendent grace.

Original language: English
ISBN 9780812996548

MEP
Marc Angel
Luxembourg

MEP
Esther de Lange
the Netherlands

Non-fiction

In Europa: Reizen door de twintigste eeuw

Geert Mak | 2006

In Europa: Reizen door de twintigste eeuw

In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century

Non-fiction

Geert Mak
the Netherlands | 2006

From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-century. Geert Mak crisscrosses Europe from Verdun to Berlin, SaintPetersburg to Srebrenica in search of evidence and witnesses of the last hundred years of Europe, locating the smaller, personal stories within the epic arc of history.

Original language: Dutch
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9789046704158

MEP
Esther de Lange
the Netherlands

MEP
Merja Kyllönen
Finland

Fiction

Tiikerinsilmä

Leena Lehtolainen | 2016

Tiikerinsilmä

Tigereye

Fiction

Leena Lehtolainen
Finland | 2016

New York-trained bodyguard, Hilja Ilverkero is back. She’s recruited by 92-year-old business woman Lovisa Johnsonia, who made a fortune in textile and has no children. Who has attempted to murder Lovisa? Tiger Eye is an exciting and funny independent sequel to the crime “Bodyguard” series, by acclaimed Finnish author Leena Letholainen.

Original language: Finnish
Available in: Swedish
ISBN 9789513190989

MEP
Merja Kyllönen
Finland

MEP
Carlos Coelho
Portugal

Non-fiction

Europa de A a Z

AA VV | 2018

Europa de A a Z

Non-fiction

AA VV
Portugal | 2018

A collection of expressions typical of 'European', a 'language' where FADO is not a song, because it means 'False and Authentic Documents Online', where PCP is not a political party, because it means 'Common Fisheries Policy', and where to nationalise means to give back to the Member States competences that were being exercised at European level.

Original language: Portuguese
ISBN 9789896229306

MEP
Carlos Coelho
Portugal

MEP
Hugues Bayet
Belgium

Fiction

1984

George Orwell | 1949

1984

Fiction

George Orwell
UK | 1949

Winston Smith works for the Ministry of truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. A terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime.

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9780141036144

MEP
Hugues Bayet
Belgium

MEP
Carlos Zorrinho
Portugal

Children Book

A maior flor do Mundo

José Saramago | 2001

A maior flor do Mundo

The biggest flower in the world

Children Book

José Saramago
Portugal | 2001

If children’s stories were required reading for adults, would we be capable of learning that which we’ve been teaching for so long? A beautiful tale for children—and adults—by Nobel Prize laureate José Saramago

Original language: Portuguese
Available in: Greek, Italian, Spanish
ISBN 9789722114370

MEP
Carlos Zorrinho
Portugal

MEP
Inese Vaidere
Latvia

Fiction

Mātes piens

Nora Ikstena | 2015

Mātes piens

Soviet Milk

Fiction

Nora Ikstena
Latvia | 2015

A troubled mother-daughter relationship set in the the Soviet-ruled Baltics between 1969 and 1989, which tells the story of three generations of women, and the importance of a grandmother giving her granddaughter what her daughter is unable to provide – love, and the desire for life.

Original language: Latvian
Available in: English, Estonian, Italian, Macedonian
ISBN 9789934546013

MEP
Inese Vaidere
Latvia

MEP
Bogdan Wenta
Poland

Non-fiction

De Crisiskaravaan: Achter de Schermen van de Noodhulpindustrie

Linda Polman | 2010

De Crisiskaravaan: Achter de Schermen van de Noodhulpindustrie

The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?

Non-fiction

Linda Polman
the Netherlands | 2010

A no-holds-barred, controversial exposé of the financial profiteering and ambiguous ethics that pervade the world of humanitarian aid. In a narrative that is impassioned, gripping, and even darkly absurd, journalist Linda Polman takes us to war zones around the globe: from the NGO-dense operations in "Afghaniscam" to the floating clinics of Texas Mercy Ships proselytizing off the shores of West Africa to show the often compromised results of aid workers' best intentions.

Original language: Dutch
Available in: English, German, Italian, Polish
ISBN 9780805092905

MEP
Bogdan Wenta
Poland

As member of DEVE Committee in the European Parliament, “The Crisis Caravan” by Linda Polman is a very interesting reading. Excellently written, very depressing and shocking evaluation of activities taken by humanitarian aid organizations and the whole industry connected with organizing humanitarian aid. It leaves the reader with questions for a long time.

MEP
José Inácio Faria
Portugal

Fiction

Os Maias

Eça de Queirós | 1888

Os Maias

Fiction

Eça de Queirós
Portugal | 1888

The talented heir to a notable family in Lisbon, who aspires to serve his fellow man in his chosen profession of medicine, and in politics, but enters a society affected by powerful international influences that trouble and frustrate him.

Original language: Portuguese
Available in: English, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9789725681367

MEP
José Inácio Faria
Portugal

MEP
Kaja Kallas
Estonia

Fiction

Kun kyyhkyset katosivat

Sofi Oksanen | 2012

Kun kyyhkyset katosivat

When the doves disappeared

Fiction

Sofi Oksanen
Finland | 2012

A story of occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Estonia during and after World War II. The novel follows the experiences of three characters: Roland, a principled independence fighter; his cousin Edgar, who will do almost anything to hide his secrets and maintain his connection to those in power; and Edgar’s wife Juudit, who is buffeted in turns by her love for a German officer, her fear of returning to her unhappy, unconsummated marriage, and her bond with the idealistic Roland.

Original language: Finnish
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9780385350174

MEP
Kaja Kallas
Estonia

MEP
Guillaume Balas
France

Fiction

The Alexandria quartet

Lawrence Durrell | 1960

The Alexandria quartet

Fiction

Lawrence Durrell
UK | 1960

Lawrence Durrell's celebrated tetralogy from the 1950s, was defined by its author as "an investigation of modern love", but has often been regarded by its readers more as an evocation of a city – the Greco-Arab, multi-ethnic Alexandria of its title. Almost infinite variations of love are certainly explored in its 1,000-odd pages, and the presence of Alexandria certainly permeates the work, but the legendary fascination of the quartet is essentially existential. The work itself is greater than its themes, and casts a spell that is neither precisely emotional nor specifically topographic.

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, Czech, French, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish
ISBN 9780140153170

MEP
Guillaume Balas
France

MEP
Brando Benifei
Italy

Fiction

1984

| 1949

1984

Fiction

UK | 1949

Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life—the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language—and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written.

Original language: English
ISBN 9780451524935

MEP
Brando Benifei
Italy

This book is built around the exchange between truth and lies. It's an interesting book that is very resounding with what we see today in the world.

MEP
Malin Bjork
Sweden

Fiction

Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders

| 1985

Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders

Perfume: the Story of a Murderer

Fiction

Germany | 1985

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.

Original language: German
ISBN 9783257228007

MEP
Malin Bjork
Sweden

MEP
Dietmar Köster
Germany

Fiction

The Cider House Rules

| 2000

The Cider House Rules

Fiction

USA | 2000

Raised from birth in the orphanage at St. Cloud's, Maine, Homer Wells has become the protege of Dr. Wilbur Larch, its physician and director. There Dr. Larch cares for the troubled mothers who seek his help, either by delivering and taking in their unwanted babies or by performing illegal abortions. Meticulously trained by Dr. Larch, Homer assists in the former, but draws the line at the latter. Then a young man brings his beautiful fiancee to Dr. Larch for an abortion, and everything about the couple beckons Homer to the wide world outside the orphanage ...

Original language: English
ISBN 9780786226740

MEP
Dietmar Köster
Germany

MEP
Brando Benifei
Italy

Fiction

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

| 1968

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Fiction

USA | 1968

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!

Original language: English
ISBN 9780345404473

MEP
Brando Benifei
Italy

A classic of science-fiction.

MEP
Mikuláš Peksa
Czech Republic

Non-fiction

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

| 2018

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Non-fiction

USA | 2018

In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth.

Original language: English
ISBN 9781610395694

MEP
Mikuláš Peksa
Czech Republic

MEP
Brando Benifei
Italy

Non-fiction

World Order

Henry Kissinger | 2014

World Order

Non-fiction

Henry Kissinger
USA | 2014

Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era—advising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events of recent decades—Kissinger now reveals his analysis of the ultimate challenge for the twenty-first century: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historical perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism. A deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder.

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9781594206146

MEP
Brando Benifei
Italy

MEP
Tomasz Frankowski
Poland

Non-fiction

Pubertät - wenn Erziehen nicht mehr geht

| 2010

Pubertät - wenn Erziehen nicht mehr geht

Puberty – when education is no longer possible

Non-fiction

Germany | 2010

In Puberty new ways of working together are needed, because education like in childhood is no longer of any use: Jesper Juul's brand-new bestseller is based on an intensive seminar in which parents and adolescents tried out solutions to their problems together with the family therapist. Orientation that helps.

Original language: German
ISBN 9783328105589

MEP
Tomasz Frankowski
Poland

This book is definitely a must read for parents who are struggling to understand their teenagers. Juul is a recognised family pedagogue and therapist who stresses the crucial role that caring adults play in a teenager's life. He draws on his great expertise to give parents many practical tips and valuable insight into the parent-child relationship. As a father of three children, I highly recommend this book.

MEP
Guillaume Balas
France

Fiction

Mémoires d'Hadrien

Marguerite Yourcenar | 1951

Mémoires d'Hadrien

Fiction

Marguerite Yourcenar
France | 1951

Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era.

Original language: French
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9782070369218

MEP
Guillaume Balas
France

MEP
Seán Kelly
Ireland

Fiction

The Guardians

| 2019

The Guardians

Fiction

USA | 2019

In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo’s.

Original language: English
ISBN 9780385544184

MEP
Seán Kelly
Ireland

MEP
Artis Pabriks
Latvia

Poetry

Mūžības skartie

Aleksandris Čaks | 1931

Mūžības skartie

Touched By Eternity

Poetry

Aleksandris Čaks
Latvia | 1931

These twenty-four poems tell the story of Latvian riflemen fighting in the trenches of World War I and Civil War fronts.

Original language: Latvian
Available in: English
ISBN 9789934119972

MEP
Artis Pabriks
Latvia

MEP
José Manuel Fernandes
Portugal

Non-fiction

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

| 2005

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Non-fiction

UK | 2005

Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all in one integrated, enthralling narrative. Both intellectually ambitious and compelling to read, thrilling in its scope and delightful in its small details, Postwar is a rare joy.

Original language: English
ISBN 9780143037750

MEP
José Manuel Fernandes
Portugal

MEP
Arndt Kohn
Germany

Non-fiction

Couchsurfing im Iran

Stephan Orth | 2015

Couchsurfing im Iran

Couchsurfing in Iran

Non-fiction

Stephan Orth
Germany | 2015

A bikini party in the pilgrim town of Mashhad, an overnight stay next to the Bushehr nuclear power plant, a sadomasochistic secret meeting in Tehran: In Iran, Stephan Orth experiences adventures that no tour operator would ever write in his catalog.

Original language: German
Available in: French, English, Polish
ISBN 9783890294544

MEP
Arndt Kohn
Germany

Unerwartete Einblicke in eine Kultur, deren Diversität und Vielfalt in den Medien nur schwer rüberkommt

MEP
Artis Pabriks
Latvia

Non-fiction

Viņš un viņa. Mīlestība, Attiecības, Sekss

Juris Rubenis | 2016

Viņš un viņa. Mīlestība, Attiecības, Sekss

"She and he. Love, relationship, sex"

Non-fiction

Juris Rubenis
Latvia | 2016

A comprehensive analysis of human relationships by highly respected Latvian theologian Juris Rubenis.

Original language: Latvian
ISBN 9789934062315

MEP
Artis Pabriks
Latvia

MEP
Helga Stevens
Belgium

Graphic Novel

Mikel

Judith Vanistendael | 2016

Mikel

Graphic Novel

Judith Vanistendael
Belgium | 2016

The incredible story of Mikel, the candy seller who became a bodyguard in the Basque Country in order to fulfill his dream of being a writer.

Original language: Dutch
Available in: French, German
ISBN 9789023498742

MEP
Helga Stevens
Belgium

About the situation in the Basque country when ETA was still active and murdering people. About a person who is recruited to become a personal body guard. Interesting book! A graphic novel which is something different.

MEP
Ivo Belet
Belgium

Fiction

Le train

Georges Simenon | 1961

Le train

The Train

Fiction

Georges Simenon
Belgium | 1961

When Nazi tanks approach the Ardennes in 1940, Marcel Ferón --a timid and happy man must abandon his home and confront the “Fate” that he has secretly awaited.

Original language: French
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9782253124917

MEP
Ivo Belet
Belgium

Written in 1961, but in a very fresh language. About the journey/escape of a young family that's on the run, through France, the first days after the outbreak of the 2nd World War.

MEP
Ana Gomes
Portugal

Fiction

O returno

Dulce Maria Cardoso | 2011

O returno

The return

Fiction

Dulce Maria Cardoso
Portugal | 2011

Rui is fifteen years old. He has lived in Luanda all his life and has never even visited the far-away Motherland, although he has heard many stories. Long after their neighbours have packed and left, his family are accepting that they too must return. But just before they leave for the airport, Rui’s father is arrested, and the family must go on without him. On arrival in Portugal, Rui, his mother and sister are crammed into a luxury hotel by the sea, along with hundreds of other families. But these families are hardly welcome back in the Motherland, and as he tries to find his way in this new, uncertain life, Rui must also confront his mother’s rapidly declining health and the lingering spectre of his father’s unknowable fate.

Original language: Portuguese
Available in: Dutch, English, French, Italian, Slovenian, Spanish
ISBN 9788565500012

MEP
Ana Gomes
Portugal

MEP
Victor Negrescu
Romania

Fiction

Historia de Mayta

Mario Vargas Llosa | 1984

Historia de Mayta

The real life of Alejandro Mayta

Fiction

Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru | 1984

The Peru of the near future is in the throes of an insurgency. A revolutionary army is taking on the failing government and the US Marines, and the cities have become vast garbage-strewn slums. In the midst of this, the narrator attempts to reconstruct the story of his friend, a modern revolutionary. The novel probes the long and checkered history of radical politics in Latin America.

Original language: Spanish
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9780374525552

MEP
Victor Negrescu
Romania

I love this book because, even if the topic is no longer relevant for our global political environment, it capture some aspects that each socialist should consider: pure idealism, pursue of equality or fighting for human rights. Also, another important lesson that one can learn reading this book is that our small ideological differences should not stop us from acting together for common main objectives.

MEP
Esther de Lange
Netherlands

Fiction

Jachthuis

| 2020

Jachthuis

Fiction

Netherlands | 2020

After the death of his mother Elsie, eighteen-year-old Maxwell travels to Suriname, the paradise where he spent his early childhood. When he arrives at the Marowijne River on the French Guiana border, he remembers the dramatic crossing he had made with his parents a few years earlier. (Descirption translated from Libris)

Original language: Dutch
ISBN 9789403143002

MEP
Esther de Lange
Netherlands

MEP
Helga Trüpel
Germany

Fiction

All the Rivers

Dorit Rabinyan | 2016

All the Rivers

Fiction

Dorit Rabinyan
Germany | 2016

When Liat meets Hilmi on a blustery autumn afternoon in Greenwich Village, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Charismatic and handsome, Hilmi is a talented young artist from Palestine. Liat, an aspiring translation student, plans to return to Israel the following summer. Despite knowing that their love can be only temporary, that it can exist only away from their conflicted homeland, Liat lets herself be enraptured by Hilmi

Original language: Hebrew
Available in: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish
ISBN 978-3462048612

MEP
Helga Trüpel
Germany

MEP
Sirpa Pietikäinen
Finland

Fiction

La Peste

| 1947

La Peste

The Plague

Fiction

France | 1947

A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes an omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion.

Original language: French
ISBN 9782070360420

MEP
Sirpa Pietikäinen
Finland

MEP
Mady Delvaux
Luxembourg

Essays

Utopies réalistes

Rutget Bregman | 2017

Utopies réalistes

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

Essays

Rutget Bregman
the Netherlands | 2017

We live in a time of unprecedented uncertainty. We have questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party of the right or left is providing us with answers. We need a new movement, an utopy for realists.

Original language: Dutch
Available in: Catalan, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
ISBN 9782021361872

MEP
Mady Delvaux
Luxembourg

Si vous êtes un homme ou une femme de gauche et si vous avez le moral en berne, lisez ce livre rafraîchissant de Rutger Bregman. Il rappelle que les utopies d’hier sont devenues des réalités aujourd’hui même si souvent il a fallu des siècles avant que des avancées remarquables n’aient été acquises, ainsi de l’abolition de l’esclavage ou encore le vote des femmes. Et donc pourquoi pas imaginer le revenu universel ? Bregman a fait ses recherches, il donne des exemples de projets qui ont réussi et explique pourquoi la pauvreté constitue un piège qui empêche de développer des stratégies de long terme.

MEP
Julie Ward
UK

Anthology

Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline

Malu Halasa | 2014

Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline

Anthology

Malu Halasa
UK | 2014

Syria Speaks is a celebration of a people determined to reclaim their dignity, freedom and self-expression. It showcases the work of over fifty artists and writers who are challenging the culture of violence in Syria. Their literature, poems and songs, cartoons, political posters and photographs document and interpret the momentous changes that have shifted the frame of reality so drastically in Syria.

Original language: English
Available in: English
ISBN 978-0863567872

MEP
Julie Ward
UK

MEP
Antanas Guoga
Lithuania

Non-fiction

Homo Deus

Yuval Noah Harari | 2015

Homo Deus

Non-fiction

Yuval Noah Harari
USA/Israel | 2015

In this vivid, challenging book Yuval Noah Harari examines the implications of our newly upgraded condition, from our dogged pursuit of status and happiness to our constant quest to overcome death by pushing the boundaries of science

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9781910701874

MEP
Antanas Guoga
Lithuania

MEP
Mady Delvaux
Luxembourg

Fiction

Charlotte

David Foenkinos | 2014

Charlotte

Fiction

David Foenkinos
France | 2014

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a talented and gifted painter in love with a brilliant, eccentric musician.But the Nazis have come to power and, a Jew in Berlin, her life is narrowing – she is kept from her art, torn from her love and her family, chased from her country. And still she is not safe, not from the madness that has hunted her family, or the one gripping Europe . . .

Original language: French
Available in: Catalan, Croatian, English, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
ISBN 9782070145683

MEP
Mady Delvaux
Luxembourg

You will like this poetic novel, powerful and sad, which retraces the tragic life of a female artist painter suffering from family demons and victim of the Nazis.

MEP
Miapetra Kumpula-Natri
Finland

Fiction

Puhdistus

Sofi Oksanen | 2008

Puhdistus

Purge

Fiction

Sofi Oksanen
Finland | 2008

When Aliide Truu, an older woman living alone in the Estonian countryside, finds a disheveled girl huddled in her front yard, she suppresses her misgivings and offers her shelter. Zara is a young sex-trafficking victim on the run from her captors, but a photo she carries with her soon makes it clear that her arrival at Aliide's home is no coincidence.

Original language: Finnish
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9780802170774

MEP
Miapetra Kumpula-Natri
Finland

MEP
Bogdan Wenta
Poland

Fiction

Patria

Fernadando Aramburu | 2016

Patria

"Homeland"

Fiction

Fernadando Aramburu
Spain | 2016

The book presents an unforgettable story of two families, taking place in small rural village in the province Gipuzkoa, Basque Country where ETA established their totalitarian regime.

Original language: Spanish
ISBN 9788490663196

MEP
Bogdan Wenta
Poland

A couple weeks ago friend of mine - a Spanish MEP, gave me the novel "Patria" as a present. It is one of those books you must finish as soon as possible once you started reading.

MEP
Isabel Santos
Portugal

Fiction

Para sempre

| 1983

Para sempre

Forever

Fiction

Portugal | 1983

In Para Sempre, "at the end of a life, entering his epilogue, a man already without a destination to fulfill meditates about his past and his future, on his return to an empty house where he spent part of his childhood, populated by ghosts that evoke the key moments of its existence. Filled with flashbacks to the past and the future (!), The real and detailed preview of the degradation of his old age and funeral urges Paulo to make the final attempt to find a meaning for life". "Continuous and increasingly lonely journey around the only point in his universe: that of his childhood as an unfinished and unfinished monologue around the fiery and dreadful miracle of his own appearance in the middle of the world - mountain, stars, water, wind that it is an answer before it is desperate and useless questioning. "(Eduardo Lourenço)

Original language: Portuguese
ISBN 9789722502689

MEP
Isabel Santos
Portugal

MEP
Carlos Zorrinho
Portugal

Fiction

Memorial do Convento

José Saramago | 1982

Memorial do Convento

Baltasar and Blimunda

Fiction

José Saramago
Portugal | 1982

When King and Church exercise absolute power what happens to the dreams of ordinary people? From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a brilliant, enchanting novel of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition.

Original language: Portuguese
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9789720046710

MEP
Carlos Zorrinho
Portugal

I love this book because it recovers the illusions, fantasies and aspirations of a Portugal that once dreamt of being great and eternal, despite being fragile and delicate.

MEP
Julie Ward
UK

Autobiography

My Brief History

Stephan Hawking | 2013

My Brief History

Autobiography

Stephan Hawking
UK | 2013

Hawking’s improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years as one of the most brilliant comsmologist and theoretical physicist of our age. Clear-eyed, intimate, and wise, My Brief History opens a window for the rest of us into Hawking’s personal cosmos.

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9780345535283

MEP
Julie Ward
UK

I am in awe of Hawking as I don’t do numbers and he was a Professor of Mathematics. His achievement is far more than intellectual as he managed to confound the laws of probability by living and working for decades following being diagnosed with a rare form of Motor Neurone disease aged 21. He was given 3 years to live but survived to 76. As a disability rights campaigner I know how important it is to have role models and champions. I love that Hawking was so unconfined. He did stuff about stars and space, black holes and gravity. He was also a committed European

MEP
Carlos Zorrinho
Portugal

Fiction

Livro do Desassossego

Fernando Pessoa | 1982

Livro do Desassossego

The book of diquiet

Fiction

Fernando Pessoa
Portugal | 1982

This unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, The Book of Disquiet is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.

Original language: Portuguese
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9788415689485

MEP
Carlos Zorrinho
Portugal

I really recommend you to read this book because it is the most important work of a poet that merges the Portuguese identity with our universal soul.

MEP
Tanja Fajon
Slovenia

Non-fiction

Žižek's jokes

Slavoj Žižek | 2014

Žižek's jokes

Non-fiction

Slavoj Žižek
UK | 2014

An entertaining but enlightening compilation of Zizekisms. This compact arrangement of jokes culled from Zizek's writings provides an index to certain philosophical, political, and sexual themes that preoccupy him.

Original language: English
Available in: Croatian, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Slovak
ISBN 9780262026710

MEP
Tanja Fajon
Slovenia

MEP
Hannu Takkula
Finland

Fiction

Di familye Mushkat

Isaac Bashevis Singer | 1950

Di familye Mushkat

The family Moskat

Fiction

Isaac Bashevis Singer
USA | 1950

In the topsy-turvy years between the dawn of the twentieth century and the dark days of 1939, the Moskat family battled on. But like many Jewish families in Poland they can no longer turn a blind eye to the dwindling of their fortunes. In Warsaw, where saints mingle with swindlers, tough Zionists argue with mystic philosophers, and medieval rabbis rub shoulders with ultra-modern painters, life is inexorably changing. Secularism and war inch nearer and the family Moskat clings on.

Original language: Yiddish
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9780374530648

MEP
Hannu Takkula
Finland

MEP
Luděk Niedermayer
Czech Republic

Fiction

Na jih od hranic, na západ od slunce

Haruki Murakami | 2008

Na jih od hranic, na západ od slunce

South of the Border, West of the Sun

Fiction

Haruki Murakami
Japan | 2008

During his childhood, Hajime's sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch. Now Hajime is in his thirties,he has a loving wife and two daughters, and success running a jazz bar. But one day Shimamoto comes back

Original language: Japanese
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9788020712868

MEP
Luděk Niedermayer
Czech Republic

For me, Murakami is the Japanese Kundera, I like several of his books, but this one the most

MEP
Ana Gomes
Portugal

Fiction

Sinais de Fogo

Jorge de Sena | 1978

Sinais de Fogo

Signs of Fire

Fiction

Jorge de Sena
Portugal | 1978

Set in Portugal at the time of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Jorge is a student staying on holiday with his uncle in Figueira. His uncle gives shelter to two Spaniards, fugitives from the Portuguese police. If the two men are captured they will be returned to certain death.

Original language: Portuguese
Available in: Dutch, English, French, Spanish
ISBN 9781857543858

MEP
Ana Gomes
Portugal

MEP
Hannu Takkula
Finland

Fiction

Lapinpoika

Kauko Röyhkä | 2016

Lapinpoika

"Lapland Son"

Fiction

Kauko Röyhkä
Finland | 2016

Simo lives in a small village in Lapland, taking care of an ill uncle. One day he meets a brautiful girl by the lake and his life is changed forever. The book follows Simo as he moves to Helsinki, and depicts life in Finalnd and Lapland from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Original language: Finnish
ISBN 9789520112493

MEP
Hannu Takkula
Finland

MEP
Liudas Mažylis
Lithuania

Fiction

Kai Kaunas buvo Kaunas

| 2019

Kai Kaunas buvo Kaunas

When Kaunas was Kaunas

Fiction

Lithuania | 2019

The book "When Kaunas was Kaunas“ written by a historian Giedre Mileryte-Japartiene takes its readers back to some beautiful summer days of 1938 and shows the ‚temporary capital‘ Kaunas in eyes of a local official of that time. The man takes a train from Klaipeda to Kaunas to manage the affairs in Ministry of Finance, as well as to spend some good time in a city that was then rapidly becoming more beautiful and modern than ever before. Let‘s take that adventurous yet mysterious trip to the temporary capital Kaunas together.

Original language: Lithuanian
ISBN 9786094664373

MEP
Liudas Mažylis
Lithuania

MEP
Mady Delvaux
Luxembourg

Fiction

Der Abschied des Hofbibliothekars

Gast Mannes | 2017

Der Abschied des Hofbibliothekars

"The leave of the court’s librarian"

Fiction

Gast Mannes
Luxembourg | 2017

The former librarian of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Gaston Mannes, presents nine fictional essays about famous European intellectuals which served as court’s librarians. Based on several biographies and imitating the spelling style of their times he describes an often critical relationship between majesties and their personal librarians.

Original language: German
ISBN 9783487085937

MEP
Mady Delvaux
Luxembourg

You should read this book if you adore the splendid libraries from the old days and if you want to ponder over the torturous relations between power and knowledge.

MEP
Bogdan Wenta
Poland

Memoir

Shantaram

Gregory David Roberts | 2003

Shantaram

Memoir

Gregory David Roberts
Australia | 2003

Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear. Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals.

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9781920769208

MEP
Bogdan Wenta
Poland

An extraordinary, colorful and dynamic reading, a journey through life, a story about people who change forever, about love, friendship, sacrifice and courage.

MEP
Radosław Sikorski
Poland

Non-fiction

Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth

| 2018

Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth

Non-fiction

United Kingdom | 2018

Based on primary sources in many European languages, and beautifully illustrated with portraits done only from life, this magnificent book examines how Napoleone Buonaparte, the boy from Corsica, became ‘Napoleon’; how he achieved what he did, and how it came about that he undid it.

Original language: English
ISBN 9780008116071

MEP
Radosław Sikorski
Poland

Expert pick

Graphic Novel

My Boy

Olivier Schrauwen | 2006

My Boy

Graphic Novel

Olivier Schrauwen
Belgium | 2006

A tiny little boy and his single father are the heroes of these unpredictable adventures that soon take a disastrous turn. The kid's small size makes him the ideal prey to crocodiles, the Pygmies' hostage, and in brief, the victim of numerous traps.

Original language: English
Available in: Finnish, German, Polish, Spanish
ISBN 9789461740

Expert pick

MEP
Dennis Radtke
Germany

Non-fiction

Verbrannte Erde: Stalins Herrschaft der Gewalt

| 2012

Verbrannte Erde: Stalins Herrschaft der Gewalt

Scorched Earth: Stalin's Reign of Terror

Non-fiction

Germany | 2012

Detailed, well-documented, and including many new details on the workings of the Stalinist state, this powerful work encompasses the dictator's brutal reign from his achievement of total power in 1929 to his death in 1953.

Original language: German
ISBN 9783406632549

MEP
Dennis Radtke
Germany

MEP
Victor Negrescu
Romania

Non-fiction

Dependență și dezvoltare. Economia politică a capitalismului românesc

Cornel Ban | 2014

Dependență și dezvoltare. Economia politică a capitalismului românesc

Dependence and development. Political economy of the Romanian capital

Non-fiction

Cornel Ban
Romania | 2014

Romanian modern economic history unfolds in eight chapters covering the period from the dawn of the local capitalist state, in mid-19th century, to the contemporary state policies, in the aftermath of the 2008 Great Depression.

Original language: Romanian
ISBN 9786068437439

MEP
Victor Negrescu
Romania

I really recommend you to read this book because it is offering an impressive perspective on the development of the Romanian economy since the Independence time. Cornel Ban did a great job emphasizing the mechanisms of development and underdevelopment during different ages of the Romanian history like the economic dependence on the Austrian Empire, Inter-War period, Communism and transition to capitalism.

MEP
Eva Maydell
Bulgaria

Fiction

Физика на тъгата

| 2011

Физика на тъгата

The physics of sorrow

Fiction

Bulgaria | 2011

Incredibly moving—such as with the story of his grandfather accidentally being left behind at a mill—and extraordinarily funny—see the section on the awfulness of the question “how are you?”—Physics is a book that you can inhabit, tracing connections, following the narrator down various “side passages,” getting pleasantly lost in the various stories and empathizing with the sorrowful, misunderstood Minotaur at the center of it all. (Description from Open Letter Books)

Original language: Bulgarian
ISBN 9789544917487

MEP
Eva Maydell
Bulgaria

MEP
Dietmar Köster
Germany

Fiction

Manhattan Beach

| 2017

Manhattan Beach

Fiction

USA | 2017

With the atmosphere of a noir thriller, Egan’s first historical novel follows Anna and Styles into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers, and union men. Manhattan Beach is a deft, dazzling, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men, of America and the world.

Original language: English
ISBN 9781476716732

MEP
Dietmar Köster
Germany

MEP
Mady Delvaux
Luxembourg

Fiction

Olga

Bernard Schlink | 2018

Olga

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free.

Fiction

Bernard Schlink
Germany | 2018

Olga, the protagonist of the new book, is an orphan raised by her grandmother at the start of the 20th century. She falls in love against all the odds with Herbert, a local aristocrat. In her thoughts and letters, Olga stays close to Herbert throughout her life.

Original language: German
Available in: English, Estonian, Italian, Macedonian
ISBN 9783257070156

MEP
Mady Delvaux
Luxembourg

Olga ist ein besinnlicher Roman. Eigentlich ist es eine außergewöhnliche Liebesgeschichte zwischen zwei Außenseitern und zugleich ein Panorama über ein Jahrhundert Deutschland, über die verschiedenen Ideologien, die dieses Jahrhundert geprägt haben und die Art, wie die Menschen damit umgehen konnten und mussten.

MEP
Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz
Spain

Fiction

Del color de la leche

Nell Leyshon | 2012

Del color de la leche

The Colour of Milk

Fiction

Nell Leyshon
UK | 2012

Mary is a sharp-tongued farm girl, and she will do anything to learn to read and write. But as she does so through four seasons of one extraordinary year, she discovers that nothing comes for free.

Original language: English
Available in: Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
ISBN 9788415601340

MEP
Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz
Spain

MEP
Miapetra Kumpula-Natri
Finland

Fiction

Bolla

| 2019

Bolla

Fiction

Finland | 2019

Entwined with their story is the legend of the Bolla, a demonic serpent known as Kulshedra, which is traditionally released only once a year to devour everything in sight over the course of a single day; an unearthly tale that gives Arsim and Miloš a language through which to reflect on their desperate relationship.

Original language: Finnish
ISBN 9789511316824

MEP
Miapetra Kumpula-Natri
Finland

MEP
Esther de Lange
the Netherlands

Fiction

A gyertyák csonkig égnek

Sándor Márai | 1942

A gyertyák csonkig égnek

Embers

Fiction

Sándor Márai
Hungary | 1942

In a secluded woodland castle an old General prepares to receive a rare visitor, a man who was once his closest friend but who he has not seen in years. Over the ensuing hours host and guest will fight a duel of words and silences, accusations and evasions. They will exhume the memory of their friendship and that of the General’s beautiful, long-dead wife. And they will return to the time the three of them last sat together following a hunt in the nearby forest - a hunt in which no game was taken but during which something was lost forever.

Original language: Hungarian
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9780375707421

MEP
Esther de Lange
the Netherlands

MEP
Julie Ward
UK

Non-fiction

In Limbo

AA VV | 2017

In Limbo

Non-fiction

AA VV
UK | 2017

Imagine you left your native country and build a new life somewhere else, where you felt happy and totally integrated. Until the day when your new country decides to vote to leave the EU. A collection of powerful testimonies from EU citizens living in the UK after Brexit.

Original language: English
ISBN 9781548026080

MEP
Julie Ward
UK

I have been trying not to read this book because I know it will make me cry. I hear these Brexit stories of distress, bewilderment and anxiety everyday in many different ways - in the emails people send me, in the meetings I attend, in the corridors and waiting areas of public buildings, on the train, on the radio, etc., and they resonate very strongly. In January the In Limbo team were involved in a children’s rights event in Liverpool and for the first time children also gave their testimonies. It was heartbreaking. Recently, I opened the book at a random page and read the words of Fr Graeme Richardson, an Anglican priest, “Leave was a vote against lives like ours, a good old English “Fuck You”.The “baked cake” of modern Britain has been smashed.” Summer is often full of cakes and so I have decided to read “In Limbo” in its entirety, although I will definitely need a lot of tissues.

MEP
Hugues Bayet
Belgium

Fiction

L'attentat

Yasmina Khadra | 2005

L'attentat

The Attack

Fiction

Yasmina Khadra
Algeria | 2005

Dr. Amin Jaafari, an Arab-Israeli citizen, is a surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. Respected and admired, he represents integration at its most successful. But one night there is a deadly bombing in a local restaurant and his wife's body is found among the dead, with massive injuries that suggest she might be the attacker.

Original language: French
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9782266162692

MEP
Hugues Bayet
Belgium

MEP
Anne Sander
France

Fiction

Le charlatan

| 1967

Le charlatan

The Charlatan

Fiction

USA | 1967

With this new unpublished novel, Singer offers us a formidable story conducted at full speed, but also a great book on exile, uprooting, and the pain of uncertainty as for the fate of those who remained in Poland. (Description from Babelio)

Original language: Yiddish/English
ISBN 9782234086302

MEP
Anne Sander
France

MEP
Radosław Sikorski
Poland

Non-fiction

Talking to Strangers

| 2019

Talking to Strangers

Non-fiction

USA | 2019

Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world.

Original language: English
ISBN 9780316478526

MEP
Radosław Sikorski
Poland

MEP
Esther de Lange
the Netherlands

Fiction

Kindsoldaat

Oscar van den Boogaard | 2018

Kindsoldaat

Child soldier

Fiction

Oscar van den Boogaard
the Netherlands | 2018

Twins Nol and Max were born in a Ducth castle at the border with Germany at the end of the 19th century. At the beginning of the WW1 the brothers leave the castle through different gates, and end up on different sides of history.

Original language: Dutch
ISBN 9789023457756

MEP
Esther de Lange
the Netherlands

A beautiful novel set in the border region between the Netherlands and Germany (the region in which I was born). The story covers the entire 20th century and thus touches the heart of the European construction seen through the lens of a family’s personal story (and link to the Dutch royal family).

MEP
Catherine Stihler
UK

Fiction

A breath of snow and ashes

Diana Gabaldon | 2005

A breath of snow and ashes

Fiction

Diana Gabaldon
USA | 2005

A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire. The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution. With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony. But from his wife Jamie knows that three years hence the result will be independence

Original language: English
Available in: Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9780385340397

MEP
Catherine Stihler
UK

MEP
Igor Šoltes
Slovenia

Fiction

The bridge on the Drina

Ivo Andrić | 1945

The bridge on the Drina

Fiction

Ivo Andrić
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1945

A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of World War I, The Bridge on the Drina won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961.

Original language: Bosnian
ISBN 9780226020457

MEP
Igor Šoltes
Slovenia

MEP
Brando Benifei
Italy

Fiction

L'amica geniale

Elena Ferrante | 2011

L'amica geniale

My brilliant friend

Fiction

Elena Ferrante
Italy | 2011

Through the lives of the fiery and unforgettable Lila, and the bookish narrator, Elena, in a poor neighborhood in the outskirts of Naples at the beginning of the 1950s, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her protagonists.

Original language: Italian
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9781609450786

MEP
Brando Benifei
Italy

MEP
Antanas Guoga
Lithuania

Fiction

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead | 2016

The Underground Railroad

Fiction

Colson Whitehead
USA | 2016

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood - where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape.

Original language: English
Available in: Dutch, Hungarian, Spanish
ISBN 9780385542364

MEP
Antanas Guoga
Lithuania

MEP
Helga Trüpel
Germany

Sociology

Resonanz: Eine Soziologie der WeltbeziehungGebundene

Rosa Hartmut | 2016

Resonanz: Eine Soziologie der WeltbeziehungGebundene

"Resonance: a sociology of wellbeing"

Sociology

Rosa Hartmut
Germany | 2016

If acceleration is the problem, resonance is perhaps the solution. This is, brought to the shortest possible formula, the core thesis of the new book of Hartmut Rosa, which can be read as the founding document of a sociology of good life.

Original language: German
ISBN 978-3518586266

MEP
Helga Trüpel
Germany

MEP
Merja Kyllönen
Finland

Fiction

Tørst

Jo Nesbø | 2017

Tørst

Thirst

Fiction

Jo Nesbø
Norway | 2017

Maverick detective Harry Holes is back, inextricably drawn back into the Oslo police force. A serial murderer has begun targeting Tinder daters—a murderer whose MO reignites Harry's hunt for a nemesis of his past.

Original language: Norwegian
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9789510423585

MEP
Merja Kyllönen
Finland

MEP
Anne Sander
France

Fiction

La Terre

Émile Zola | 1887

La Terre

The Earth

Fiction

Émile Zola
France | 1887

When Jean Macquart arrives in the peasant community of Beauce, where farmers have worked the same land for generations, he quickly finds himself involved in the corrupt affairs of the local Fouan family. A fascinating portrayal of a struggling but decadent community.

Original language: French
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9782070371778

MEP
Anne Sander
France

MEP
Marc Angel
Luxembourg

Fiction

Soldados de Salamina

| 2001

Soldados de Salamina

Soldiers of Salamis

Fiction

Spain | 2001

At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the writer Rafael Sánchez Mazas, one of the founders of the Phalanx, escaped from the execution squad. A soldier discovers him hiding behind bushes and points his rifle at him. He looks him in the eye for a long time and shouts to his superiors: "There is no one around here!" The value he sees beyond the seeming historical anecdote prompts a journalist, sixty years later, to cling to the fate of the two adversaries who have played their lives in this single glance. He paints a portrait of the old-fashioned gentleman dreaming of establishing a regime of reborn poets and condottieres, when the providential figure of an old republican soldier arises. The trainee Catalan apprentice, veteran of all wars, recounts: the camps of Argelès, the Foreign Legion, eight years of relentless combat against fascist barbarism. Would he be the heroic soldier? The man suggests that the real heroes are all dead, fallen on the field of honor, mostly forgotten; that wars would only be romantic for those who did not experience them. This book, which has shaken up Spain, is enjoying unprecedented international distribution.

Original language: Spanish
ISBN 9788483101612

MEP
Marc Angel
Luxembourg

MEP
Helga Trüpel
Germany

Biography

Wer war Ingeborg Bachmann?

Ina Hartwig | 2017

Wer war Ingeborg Bachmann?

Who was Ingeborg Bachmann?

Biography

Ina Hartwig
Germany | 2017

Ingeborg Bachmann is a myth of German-speaking post-war literature. Her divine performances and the early fame, her relationships with Paul Celan and Max Frisch and not least her enigmatic, tragic death provide a glamorous image, brillianly depicted by Ina Hartwig.

Original language: German
ISBN 9783100023032

MEP
Helga Trüpel
Germany

MEP
Karen Melchior
Denmark

Fiction

House of Glass

| 2020

House of Glass

Fiction

United Kingdom | 2020

This thrilling family saga is filled with extraordinary twists, vivid characters, and famous cameos, illuminating the Jewish and immigrant experience in the World War II era. Addressing themes of assimilation, identity, and home, this powerful story about the past echoes issues that remain relevant today.

Original language: English
ISBN 9781797104812

MEP
Karen Melchior
Denmark

MEP
Guillaume Balas
France

Fiction

Désert

Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio | 1980

Désert

Desert

Fiction

Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio
France | 1980

Desert is a novel composed of two alternating narratives, set in counterpoint. The first takes place in the desert between 1909 and 1912 and evokes the migration of a young adolescent boy, Nour, and his people, the Blue Men. The second narrative relates the contemporary story of Lalla, a descendant of the Blue Men.

Original language: French
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9782070376704

MEP
Guillaume Balas
France

MEP
Álvaro Amaro
Portugal

Non-fiction

How Democracies Die

| 2018

How Democracies Die

Non-fiction

USA | 2018

Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang--in a revolution or military coup--but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms. The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to authoritarianism. The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we have already passed the first one. Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the American South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die--and how ours can be saved.

Original language: English
ISBN 9781524762933

MEP
Álvaro Amaro
Portugal

Expert pick

Poetry

Kameleon

Charlotte van den Broeck | 2015

Kameleon

Poetry

Charlotte van den Broeck
Belgium | 2015

The poems in Kameleon consitute a "road trip" around a woman's body, explored through a multitude of memories, landscapes and images.

Original language: Dutch
ISBN 9789029538435

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MEP
Marita Ulvskog
Sweden

Fiction

De kommer att drunkna i sina mödrars tårar

Johannes Anyuru | 2017

De kommer att drunkna i sina mödrars tårar

They will drown in the tears of their mothers

Fiction

Johannes Anyuru
Sweden | 2017

One winter evening, three individuals who swear fidelity to ISIS enter a bookstore. A controversial artist's appearance is interrupted by a gun shot, panic breaks out and everyone in the room is taken as hostage. But one of the attackers, a young woman who has the task of filming the violence, has a secret that can change everything.

Original language: Swedish
Available in: Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian
ISBN 9789113073132

MEP
Marita Ulvskog
Sweden

MEP
Emmanuel Maurel
France

Fiction

Con le peggiori intenzioni

| 2005

Con le peggiori intenzioni

The Worst Intentions

Fiction

Italy | 2005

Daniel is the thirty-three-year-old heir to the dappled fortunes of the Sonninos, a wealthy Jewish-Italian family whose staggering rise and fall during the years spanning the end of World War II and the beginning of the twenty-first century provides the richly colored backdrop to this remarkable tragicomedy. Daniel has inherited his grandfather's extravagant passions and his father's servility, as well as the excesses of his social class. He is also the victim of a crippling infatuation with Gaia, fountainhead of his erotic fantasies and fetishes. This novel will be justly compared to the works of Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. An audacious, sumptuous saga about ritual and liberty, love and war, sex and betrayal, set in the opulent neighborhoods of contemporary Rome.

Original language: Italian
ISBN 9788804538028

MEP
Emmanuel Maurel
France

MEP
Catherine Stihler
UK

Poetry

The Clinic, Memory: New and Selected Poems

Elaine Feinstein | 2017

The Clinic, Memory: New and Selected Poems

Poetry

Elaine Feinstein
UK | 2017

Elaine Feinstein has selected poems from the last half century of her writing life. They range widely: tender, early lyrics from ‘In a Green Eye’; elegies for her father and close friends, amused reflections on ageing and longer poems such as ‘Gold’, based on the life of Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart’s librettist, or the lot of refugees in ‘Migration’.

Original language: English
ISBN 9781784103200

MEP
Catherine Stihler
UK

Autobiography

Personal History

Katherine Graham | 1997

Personal History

Autobiography

Katherine Graham
USA | 1997

In this autobiography, the owner of the Washington Post has chosen to be remarkably candid about the insecurities prompted by remote parents and a difficult marriage to the charismatic, manic-depressive Phil Graham, who ran the newspaper her father acquired.

Original language: English
Available in: Portuguese, Spanish
ISBN 9780375701047

MEP
Catherine Stihler
UK

Expert pick

Fiction

Sommerfrische

Esther Kinsky | 2009

Sommerfrische

Summer Resort

Fiction

Esther Kinsky
Germany | 2009

On the endless Hungarian plain it is the hottest summer in memory and everyone in the village dreams of the sweet life in Üdülö, a summer resort on a river. Tales of onion kings and melon pickers, of scrapyards and sugar beet factories, paint a vivid and human picture of their world.

Original language: German
Available in: English
ISBN 9781906497880

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MEP
Liliana Rodrigues
Portugal

A Morte de um Apicultor

Lars Gustafsson | 1972

A Morte de um Apicultor

Death of a beekeeper

Lars Gustafsson
Sweden | 1972

In the beginning of the winter thaw, Lars Lennart Westin has learned that he has cancer and will not live through spring.The Death of a Beekeeper, is his gentle, courageous, and sometimes comic meditation on living with pain.

Original language: Swedish
Available in: Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian
ISBN 9789724110837

MEP
Liliana Rodrigues
Portugal

MEP
Monica Macovei
Romania

Fiction

The Spinoza problem

Irvin D. Yalom | 2012

The Spinoza problem

Fiction

Irvin D. Yalom
USA | 2012

By imagining the unexpected intersection of Spinoza’s life with Rosenberg’s, Yalom explores the mindsets of two men separated by 300 years. Using his skills as a psychiatrist, he explores the inner lives of Spinoza, the saintly secular philosopher, and of Rosenberg, the godless mass murderer.

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish
ISBN 9780465029631

MEP
Monica Macovei
Romania

The Spinoza Problem is a story based on historical facts wherein the heroic philosopher is persecuted in two eras. One governed by medieval superstition describing Baruch Spinoza’s life. The other one governed by totalitarian racism, dealing with the life of a Nazi. Yalom juxtaposes the story of the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza, whose philosophy led to his own excommunication from the Jewish community, with that of the rise and fall of the Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg, who ordered his task force to plunder Spinoza’s ancient library in an effort to protect it and deal with the Nazis’ “Spinoza Problem.” Alternating between Golden Age Amsterdam and Nazi Germany, the book tells the story of the inner lives of these two enigmatic men in a tale of influence and anxiety, the origins of good and evil, and the philosophy of freedom and the tyranny of terror.

MEP
Hugues Bayet
Belgium

Non-fiction

King kong théorie

Virginie Despentes | 2006

King kong théorie

Non-fiction

Virginie Despentes
France | 2006

Virginie Despentes explodes common attitudes about sex and gender, and shows how modern beauty myths are ripe for rebelling against. A highly charged account of women's lives today.

Original language: French
Available in: Basque, Catalan, English, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
ISBN 9782253122111

MEP
Hugues Bayet
Belgium

MEP
Malin Björk
Sweden

Fiction

Jag heter inte Miriam

Majgull Axelsson | 2014

Jag heter inte Miriam

"I am not called Miriam"

Fiction

Majgull Axelsson
Sweden | 2014

When the family gathered around Miriam's bed to celebrate her 85th birthday, they think that she has gone mad. Why does she says she’s not called Miriam? The truth behind the tattoo on Miriam's arm, about how she became Miriam, begin to slowly come up and it's a totally different story than the one family expects. It is a story of self-deception, shame and exclusion, on Europe's painful history, about the situation of Roma and Sweden in the postwar period.

Original language: Swedish
Available in: Czech, Dutch, German, Italian, Polish
ISBN 9789173374668

MEP
Malin Björk
Sweden

MEP
Mady Delvaux
Luxembourg

Fiction

Zwei Herren am Strand

Michael Köhlmeier | 2014

Zwei Herren am Strand

Two Gentlemen on the Beach

Fiction

Michael Köhlmeier
Austria | 2014

On the face of it, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin – two icons of the twentieth century – couldn’t be more different. But they are bound by a dark secret: both suffer from depression. When a chance encounter reveals what they share, an unusual and unlikely friendship ensues. A series of therapeutic meetings across the world, in Germany, England and America, sees each become the other’s confidant as they talk of their ‘black dog days’.

Original language: German
Available in: English, French
ISBN 9783446246034

MEP
Mady Delvaux
Luxembourg

You will like this intelligent book about the improbable relationship between two geniuses, Charlie Chaplin and Winston Churchill, who contrast sharply but who could still have agreed on the essence.

MEP
Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz
Spain

Non-fiction

Contra el fanatismo

Amos Oz | 2002

Contra el fanatismo

Non-fiction

Amos Oz
Israel | 2002

A unique insight into the true nature of fanaticism and proposes a reasoned and respectful approach to resolving the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish
ISBN 9788478447084

MEP
Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz
Spain

MEP
Sirpa Pietikäinen
Finland

Non-fiction

The Second Machine Age

Erik, Andrew Brynjolfsson, McAfee | 2014

The Second Machine Age

Non-fiction

Erik, Andrew Brynjolfsson, McAfee
USA | 2014

A fundamentally optimistic book that alters how we think about issues of technological, societal, and economic progress. In The Second Machine Age MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee—two thinkers at the forefront of their field—reveal the forces driving the reinvention of our lives and our economy.

Original language: English
Available in: Czech, French, Danish, Dutch, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish
ISBN 9780393350647

MEP
Sirpa Pietikäinen
Finland

Non-fiction

Planetary Health: Human Health in an Era of Global Environmental Change

| 2019

Planetary Health: Human Health in an Era of Global Environmental Change

Non-fiction

United Kingdom | 2019

A comprehensive publication covering key concepts in this emerging field, Planetary Health reviews ideas and approaches to the subject such as natural capital, ecological resilience, evolutionary biology, One Earth and transhumanism.

Original language: English
ISBN 9781789241648

MEP
Sirpa Pietikäinen
Finland

MEP
Michaela Šojdrová
Czech Republic

Non-fiction

Průmysl lži

Alexandra Alvarová | 2017

Průmysl lži

Industry Lies

Non-fiction

Alexandra Alvarová
Czech Republic | 2017

Alexandra Alvarová has been involved in political propaganda and marketing for 20 years and will show you through this book how unreliable, emotionally labile, and naive is our brain in making opinions. A unique read that goes behind the backdrop of big power games, where billions turn.

Original language: Czech
ISBN 9788075534

MEP
Michaela Šojdrová
Czech Republic

MEP
Malin Bjork
Sweden

Autobiography

Le Consentement

| 2020

Le Consentement

Consent

Autobiography

France | 2020

Already an international literary sensation, an intimate and powerful memoir of a young French teenage girl’s relationship with a famous, much older male writer—a universal #MeToo story of power, manipulation, trauma, recovery, and resiliency that exposes the hypocrisy of a culture that has allowed the sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked.

Original language: French
ISBN 9782246822691

MEP
Malin Bjork
Sweden

MEP
Anna Záborská
Slovakia

Children book

Veľká kniha slovenských rozprávok

Ľubomír Feldek | 2003

Veľká kniha slovenských rozprávok

Children book

Ľubomír Feldek
Slovakia | 2003

Fifty of the most beautiful Slovak fairytales in a new collection curated by Slovak poet, playwright, writer, translator and children author Ľubomír Feldek

Original language: Slovak
ISBN 8088983428

MEP
Anna Záborská
Slovakia

MEP
Josep-Maria Terricabras
Spain

Fiction

Incèrta Glòria

Joan Sales i Vallès | 1956

Incèrta Glòria

Fiction

Joan Sales i Vallès
Spain | 1956

Uncertain Glory was the first novel to tell the story of the Spanish Civil War from the losers' side. The novel's hero, Juli Soleras, perhaps the most compelling character in Catalan literature, is an anti-hero: half philosopher, half cynic, locked in an eternal struggle with himself. A thrilling epic that was censored heavily for a long time.

Original language: Catalan
Available in: Dutch, English, German, Spanish
ISBN 9788429719215

MEP
Josep-Maria Terricabras
Spain

Fiction

Alícia en Terra de Maravelles

Lewis Carroll, Josep Carner | 1927

Alícia en Terra de Maravelles

Alice in wonderland

Fiction

Lewis Carroll, Josep Carner
Spain | 1927

An excellent translation of one of the most famous children books by the Catalan poet Josep Carner, despite the fact that translating Lewis Carroll is a real challenge, full of funny expressions, puns and cultural references.

Original language: Catalan
ISBN 9788426126887

MEP
Josep-Maria Terricabras
Spain

MEP
Bogdan Wenta
Poland

Non-fiction

The Emperor

Ryszard Kapuściński | 1978

The Emperor

Non-fiction

Ryszard Kapuściński
Poland | 1978

This sensitive, powerful history is Kapuscinski's rendition of Haile Selassie king of Ethiopia, living amidst nearly unimaginable pomp and luxury while his people teetered between hunger and starvation.

Original language: Polish
Available in: English
ISBN 9780679722038

MEP
Bogdan Wenta
Poland

MEP
Isabel Santos
Portugal

Fiction

Мать

| 1907

Мать

Mother

Fiction

Russia | 1907

This novel tells the story of the common proletariat who protested against the czar and the capitalists which eventually led to the October Revolution. Pelageya is the wife of a factory worker who ignores the political upheaval in her country in favor of caring for her personal life. She represents hundreds of workers who are concerned with living their lives. Her son Pavel takes a different path and joins the revolution inspiring many Russians who were living under a capitalistic society in Russia. Gorky saw the "mother country" as supporting her children as they fought for their rights.

Original language: Russian
ISBN 9781604448689

MEP
Isabel Santos
Portugal

MEP
Julia Reda
Germany

Memoir

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah | 2016

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Memoir

Trevor Noah
South Africa | 2016

Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist.

Original language: English
Available in: Dutch, German
ISBN 9780385689229

MEP
Julia Reda
Germany

An autobiography that passionately deals with themes of injustice, apartheid, poverty and domestic abuse, while still being genuinely funny and heart-warming

MEP
Dennis Radtke
Germany

Non-fiction

Beethoven. Een biografie

| 2009

Beethoven. Een biografie

Beethoven: der einsame Revolutionär (Deutsch)

Non-fiction

Netherlands | 2009

The meticulously documented and flamboyantly written book was received with great enthusiasm and is now in its seventh publication. The relevance of Beethoven for modern times jumps out from each and every one of the more than 600 pages; in fact, on the basis of this portrait, some critics do not hesitate to compare him to a pop musician. (Description from Le Concert Olympique)

Original language: Dutch
ISBN 9789023429067

MEP
Dennis Radtke
Germany

Expert pick

Fiction

Other People’s Countries: A Journey Into memory

Patrick McGuinness | 2014

Other People’s Countries: A Journey Into memory

Fiction

Patrick McGuinness
UK | 2014

This book evolved out of stories the author told his children: stories about the Belgian border town of Bouillon, where his mother came from, and where he has been going three times a year since he was a child – first with his parents and now with his son and daughter. A stunning piece of lyrical writing.

Original language: English
ISBN 9781448182343

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MEP
Malin Björk
Sweden

Memoir

En storm kom från paradiset

Johannes Anyuru | 2012

En storm kom från paradiset

A Storm Blew in from Paradise

Memoir

Johannes Anyuru
Sweden | 2012

A Storm Blew in from Paradise is both the story of Anyuru's father, P, a Ugandan pilot who deserted, and of Anyuru himself. Both men grew up without their fathers, an emotional void that had a serious impact on their lives. P makes a promising start as a fighter-pilot, but he soon finds himself a refugee, on the run like a hunted animal - while his only dream is to fly. Anyuru, growing up as a first-generation Swede, can't seem to leave the past behind, either.

Original language: Swedish
Available in: Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German
ISBN 9789113040875

MEP
Malin Björk
Sweden

MEP
Sergio Gaetano Cofferati
Italy

Non-fiction

Il puzzle Moro

Giovanni Fasanella | 2018

Il puzzle Moro

The Moro puzzle

Non-fiction

Giovanni Fasanella
Italy | 2018

A compelling story of unpublished testimonies and documents, offering a new perspective on the most important post-war political crime in the EU: the murder of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro

Original language: Italian
ISBN 9788861900318

MEP
Sergio Gaetano Cofferati
Italy

MEP
Dietmar Köster
Germany

Non-fiction

Rückkehr nach Reims

Didier Eribon | 2009

Rückkehr nach Reims

Returning to Reims

Non-fiction

Didier Eribon
France | 2009

A remarkable book of sociological inquiry and critical theory, of interest to anyone concerned with the direction of leftist politics in the contemporary world, and to anyone who has ever experienced how sexual identity can clash with other parts of one's identity.

Original language: French
Available in: Dutch, English, German, Italian, Swedish
ISBN 9783518072523

MEP
Dietmar Köster
Germany

MEP
Miapetra Kumpula-Natri
Finland

Fiction

Réparer les vivants

Maylis de Kerangal | 2014

Réparer les vivants

Mend the living / The heart

Fiction

Maylis de Kerangal
France | 2014

After a fatal car accident a teenager is declared brain-dead shortly by the doctors, but his heart is still beating.The Heart takes place over the twenty-four hours surrounding the resulting heart transplant, as life is taken from a young man and given to a woman close to death. In gorgeous, ruminative prose, it examines the deepest feelings of everyone involved as they navigate decisions of life and death.

Original language: French
Available in: Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9782070144136

MEP
Miapetra Kumpula-Natri
Finland

MEP
Michela Giuffrida
Italy

Fiction

Il Gattopardo

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | 1958

Il Gattopardo

The Leopard

Fiction

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Italy | 1958

A story of a decadent and dying aristocracy threatened by the forces of revolution and democracy. Set against the political upheavals of Italy in the 1860s, it focuses on Don Fabrizio, a Sicilian prince of immense sensual appetites, wealth, and great personal magnetism.

Original language: Italian
Available in: English, Spanish
ISBN 9788807883828

MEP
Michela Giuffrida
Italy

MEP
Liudas Mažylis
Lithuania

Non-fiction

Gulag: A History

| 2003

Gulag: A History

Non-fiction

USA | 2003

The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Applebaum intimately re-creates what life was like in the camps and links them to the larger history of the Soviet Union. Immediately recognized as a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship, Gulag is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history of the twentieth century.

Original language: English
ISBN 9780767900560

MEP
Liudas Mažylis
Lithuania

MEP
Carlos Zorrinho
Portugal

Fiction

As Intermitências da Morte

| 2005

As Intermitências da Morte

Death at Intervals

Fiction

Portugal | 2005

In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year, people stop dying. There is great celebration and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Soon, though, the residents begin to suffer. Undertakers face bankruptcy, the church is forced to reinvent its doctrine, and local 'maphia' smuggle those on the brink of death over the border where they can expire naturally. Death does return eventually, but with a new, courteous approach – delivering violet warning letters to her victims. But what can death do when a letter is unexpectedly returned? (Description from Penguin Random House UK)

Original language: Portuguese
ISBN 9722117386

MEP
Carlos Zorrinho
Portugal

MEP
Romana Tomc
Slovenia

Fiction

White panther

Janez Janša | 2018

White panther

Fiction

Janez Janša
Slovenia | 2018

203BC. For the Karnian people, in the idyllic mountain passes of Slovenia, the Roman Empire is no longer a distant menace: the legions are massing on their borders. A powerful yet lyrical tale that combines the sweep of history with the human impact of empire and war.

Original language: Slovenian
Available in: English
ISBN 9781908041425

MEP
Romana Tomc
Slovenia

MEP
Josep-Maria Terricabras
Spain

Classics

Tirant lo Blanc

Martorell Joanot, Martí Joan de Galba | 1490

Tirant lo Blanc

Classics

Martorell Joanot, Martí Joan de Galba
Spain | 1490

A sweeping epic of chivalry and high adventure, Tirant lo Blanc describes with great precision and verve land and sea battles, duels, hunts, banquets, political maneuverings, and romantic conquests.

Original language: Catalan
Available in: Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
ISBN 9788475841198

MEP
Josep-Maria Terricabras
Spain

MEP
Brando Benifei
Italy

Fiction

The Picture of Dorian Gray

| 1890

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Fiction

USA | 1890

Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it ﬁrst appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting inﬂuence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde’s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray’s relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, “Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.

Original language: English
ISBN 9780486278070

MEP
Brando Benifei
Italy

MEP
Liliana Rodrigues
Portugal

Fiction

Admirável Mundo Novo

Aldous Huxley | 2013

Admirável Mundo Novo

Brave New World

Fiction

Aldous Huxley
UK | 2013

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free.

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9789726082422

MEP
Liliana Rodrigues
Portugal

MEP
Dietmar Köster
Germany

Non-fiction

Unsere Revolution. Wir brauchen eine gerechte Gesellschaft

Bernie Sanders | 2017

Unsere Revolution. Wir brauchen eine gerechte Gesellschaft

Our Revolution. A Future to Believe in

Non-fiction

Bernie Sanders
USA | 2017

Throughout the Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders galvanized voters with his progressive platform and vision for America. In the book, Sanders shares experiences from the campaign trail and outlines his ideas for continuing a political revolution.

Original language: English
Available in: French, German
ISBN 9783550050077

MEP
Dietmar Köster
Germany

MEP
Malin Bjork
Sweden

Non-fiction

Klubben

| 2019

Klubben

Non-fiction

Sweden | 2019

For decades he had been surrounded by rumors of abuse - the well-known cultural profile whose prestigious club attracted members of the Swedish Academy, and where artistry was both born and died. On November 22, 2017, journalist Matilda Gustavsson's report on the cultural profile was published in Dagens Nyheter, where eighteen women testified about rape, threats and harassment. It launched an chain of events that would cause one of the world's most rich cultural institutions to crack down on open curtains. In "The Club" Matilda Gustavsson deepens her investigation of the power of the cultural world and how far one can go in the name of art. She writes about the time surrounding the publication, the aftermath in which the cultural profile is condemned for rape and about the contradictions within the Academy.

Original language: Swedish
ISBN 9789100177645

MEP
Malin Bjork
Sweden

Expert pick

Graphic Novel

Toen David zijn stem verloor

Judith Vanistendael | 2012

Toen David zijn stem verloor

When David lost his Voice

Graphic Novel

Judith Vanistendael
Belgium | 2012

The moment his granddaughter Louise is born, David learns that he has cancer. But words were never his forte, and he’d rather keep quiet about his illness, the pain and the end that awaits him – much to the frustration of the women in his life. They wait, powerless, for the silent but inexorable end.

Original language: Dutch
Available in: English, French, German, Polish, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9789054923367

Expert pick

MEP
Christophe Hansen
Luxembourg

Fiction

Die Mutationen

| 2019

Die Mutationen

Fiction

Luxembourg | 2019

The house fly Leon Sumsa wakes up one morning and finds itself in an “enormous vertebrate”, that is, a human being. The lion from Kurt Tucholsky's satire “The lion is going!” Mutates into a polar bear that explores hip Berlin. The model of the statue of Venus from Prosper Mérimée's story "La Venus d`Ille" works as a young slave in a "company" that has striking parallels with today's working world. The "anecdote from the last Prussian war" (Kleist) is moved to the future, where the last four people fight each other. Ingeborg Bachmann's "Invocation of the Big Bear" is crossed with Lovecraft's Cthulhu myth and the result is a poem that sounds strange after Gottfried Benn.

Original language: German
ISBN 9782919954131

MEP
Christophe Hansen
Luxembourg

MEP
Kaja Kallas
Estonia

Fiction

The Circle

Dave Eggers | 2013

The Circle

Fiction

Dave Eggers
USA | 2013

When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. She can’t believe her luck - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish
ISBN 9780385351393

MEP
Kaja Kallas
Estonia

MEP
Mairead McGuinness
Ireland

Fiction

Where the Crawdads Sing

| 2018

Where the Crawdads Sing

Fiction

USA | 2018

Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver and Karen Russell, Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

Original language: English
ISBN 9780735219113

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Mairead McGuinness
Ireland

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Seán Kelly
Ireland

Fiction

The Silent Patient

| 2019

The Silent Patient

Fiction

United Kingdom | 2019

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.

Original language: English
ISBN 9781250301697

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Seán Kelly
Ireland

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Malin Björk
Sweden

Short stories

Любовь пчел трудовых

Aleksandra Mijaïlovna Kollontaï | 1923

Любовь пчел трудовых

Love of Worker Bees

Short stories

Aleksandra Mijaïlovna Kollontaï
USSR | 1923

Love of Worker Bees consists of a remarkable novel and two striking short stories.The novel is both a moving love story and a rare graphic portrait of Russian life after the October revolution in 1917. The heroine, Vasilia, struggles to come to terms with her passionate love for her husband and the new world that is coming into being around her. The two stories, "Three Generations" and "Sisters," provide more poignant and fascinating insights into the situation of women.

Original language: Russian
Available in: English, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9780897330015

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Malin Björk
Sweden

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Marita Ulvskog
Sweden

Fiction

Darling river

Sara Stridsberg | 2010

Darling river

Fiction

Sara Stridsberg
Sweden | 2010

Darling rivers , consists of variations on the story of Dolores Haze (Lolita). It tells the story of Lo, who spends her days seducing men (her ‘brothers’) on the muddy banks of the river of the title, and her nights being driven around in her father’s Jaguar through forest fires, while he runs over animals on the road, has sex in the car with prostitutes and shoots holes in Lo’s mother’s dresses hung up between trees.

Original language: Swedish
Available in: Danish, Dutch, French, German
ISBN 9789100122683

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Marita Ulvskog
Sweden

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Seán Kelly
Ireland

Memoir

The Choice

Philly McMahon | 2018

The Choice

Memoir

Philly McMahon
Ireland | 2018

A profound and inspirational memoir, Dublin footballer Philly McMahon wrote after the loss of his brother John. The book traces his and John’s paths, from his earliest recollections of their childhood through the maelstrom of Ballymun’s heroin epidemic.

Original language: English
ISBN 9780717179138

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Seán Kelly
Ireland

The book is a highly moving and gripping read. Philly is insightful and compassionate. As former president of the GAA, I found it very inspiring to read of the strength that he drew from sport in such troubling circumstances.

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Catherine Stihler
UK

Non-fiction

The correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, Volume 2

Nadine Akkerman (editor) | 2011

The correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, Volume 2

Non-fiction

Nadine Akkerman (editor)
UK | 2011

In this most political period of her life, Elizabeth devises, often unsuccessfully, ploys to gain financial, moral, and military support for the Palatine cause, frequently in direct opposition to her brother's wishes and demands. Her letters were the principal means by which she could exert her power on statesmen and military leaders.

Original language: English
ISBN 9780199551088

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Catherine Stihler
UK

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Julie Ward
United Kingdom

Memoir

The Lightless Sky

Gulwali Passarlay | 2016

The Lightless Sky

Memoir

Gulwali Passarlay
UK/Afghanistan | 2016

A gripping, inspiring, and eye-opening memoir of fortitude and survival—of a twelve-year-old boy’s traumatic flight from Afghanistan to the West—that puts a face to one of the most shocking and devastating humanitarian crises of our time.

Original language: English
Available in: French, German, Italian, Romanian
ISBN 978-0062443892

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Julie Ward
United Kingdom

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Carlos Coelho
Portugal

Non-fiction

Ética para um Jovem

Fernando Savater | 1995

Ética para um Jovem

Non-fiction

Fernando Savater
Spain | 1995

Thought and written to be read by teenagers, this book invites the reader to reflect and ask new questions about freedom of choice, responsibility, the value of friendship, love, respect, possession and power.

Original language: Spanish
Available in: Danish, Dutsch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian
ISBN 9722028391

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Carlos Coelho
Portugal

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Michaela Šojdrová
Czech Republic

Non-fiction

Z Etiopie a odjinud

| 2020

Z Etiopie a odjinud

From Ethiopia and elsewhere

Non-fiction

Czech Republic | 2020

This book by a well-known reporter deals with four notable destinations: Moravia, Sardinia, Brussels and Ethiopia. What do these four places have in common? Finding out that people are basically the same everywhere in the world. They care about the same things. They cling to their country, to their culture. Above all, however, they live in a world whose history and stories are interconnected ... Today, even more than in the past.

Original language: Czech
ISBN 9788027113781

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Michaela Šojdrová
Czech Republic

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Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz
Spain

Non-fiction

Yihadismo

Miguel Angel Ballesteros | 2016

Yihadismo

Jihadism

Non-fiction

Miguel Angel Ballesteros
Spain | 2016

What is behind jihadism? From Al Qaeda and the Arab Springs, passing through the creation of the Islamic State, Ballesteros tells the facts chronologically and instructively, with the sole purpose of clarifying a complicated phenomenon.

Original language: Spanish
ISBN 9788494460364

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Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz
Spain

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Marita Ulvskog
Sweden

Fiction

Hjortronlandet

Sara Lidman | 1955

Hjortronlandet

Fiction

Sara Lidman
Sweden | 1955

This cheerful, sometimes heartbreaking novel, brings the reader in the hard and difficult life of a community of farmers in the north of Sweden. Life pulses in every row and every word becomes a protest against human condition.

Original language: Swedish
Available in: Norwegian
ISBN 9100567906

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Marita Ulvskog
Sweden

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Álvaro Amaro
Portugal

Non-fiction

Identity

| 2018

Identity

Non-fiction

USA | 2018

Demand for recognition of one's identity is a master concept that unifies much of what is going on in world politics today. The universal recognition on which liberal democracy is based has been increasingly challenged by narrower forms of recognition based on nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, or gender, which have resulted in anti-immigrant populism, the upsurge of politicized Islam, the fractious "identity liberalism" of college campuses, and the emergence of white nationalism. Populist nationalism, said to be rooted in economic motivation, actually springs from the demand for recognition and therefore cannot simply be satisfied by economic means. The demand for identity cannot be transcended; we must begin to shape identity in a way that supports rather than undermines democracy. Identity is an urgent and necessary book--a sharp warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continuing conflict.

Original language: English
ISBN 9780374129293

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Álvaro Amaro
Portugal

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Marita Ulvskog
Sweden

Short stories

Too much happiness

Alice Munro | 2009

Too much happiness

Short stories

Alice Munro
Canada | 2009

With clarity and ease, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into ten superb stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives.

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, English, Finnish, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
ISBN 9780307269768

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Marita Ulvskog
Sweden

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Helga Stevens
Belgium

Biography

De levens van Jan Six

Geert Mak | 2016

De levens van Jan Six

The lives of Jan Six

Biography

Geert Mak
the Netherlands | 2016

This is the story of Jan Six, his family and his many lives. His portrait is considered to be the best that his friend Rembrandt ever made, it still hangs - uniquely - in the family house on the Amstel. the story of an Amsterdam elite family through four centuries. But it is also the story of a city and the spirit of the times, of ambitions and limitations, of grandeur and the eternal fear of the decline.

Original language: Dutch
Available in: German
ISBN 9789045027760

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Helga Stevens
Belgium

This family history spans a period from mid 16th century until now. It was a rich family of weavers which fled French Flanders during the Contrareformation and Inquisition and found refuge in Amsterdam. Soon the Six family became part of the ‘governing elite’ of Amsterdam. Their “adventures” were intertwined with the history of the city of Amsterdam in particular and the Netherlands in general. A good way to refresh our memory of that part of our common history. The book also shows that actually little has changed over time: persecution on the basis of belief/religion or opinion, migration, corruption, greed (the one percent!), and abuse of power, etc.

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Tomasz Frankowski
Poland

Non-fiction

Zapiski na paczce papierosów

| 2018

Zapiski na paczce papierosów

Notes on a Pack of Cigarettes

Non-fiction

Poland | 2018

Thanks to Pawlak, we look behind the scenes of the literary life of the Polish People's Republic and contemporary Poland, we get to know the everyday life of martial law, we accompany the author in his political and writer's battles, and together with the boys from the backyard of the 70s, we overthrow guilty wine, burning 3.50 a pack. (Description translated)

Original language: Polish
ISBN 9788380322387

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Tomasz Frankowski
Poland

Pawlak presents the rebellious fervour and overall reality of the last century with great humour and sensitivity. The book is a collection of specific memories and events from the past which can be read fairly quickly. It is unsettling to recall that what may seem funny to us today, was in fact the very harsh reality of everyday life for many people in the past.

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Karlo Ressler
Croatia

Non-fiction

The Organised Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

| 2014

The Organised Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

Non-fiction

USA | 2014

With lively, entertaining chapters on everything from the kitchen junk drawer to health care to executive office workflow, Levitin reveals how new research into the cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory can be applied to the challenges of our daily lives.

Original language: English
ISBN 9780525954187

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Karlo Ressler
Croatia

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Monica Macovei
Romania

Memoir

Ocolul Mării Negre în 90 de zile.

Sabina Fati | 2016

Ocolul Mării Negre în 90 de zile.

Trip around the Black See. 7 countries, 8 borders and a lived coup d'etat

Memoir

Sabina Fati
Romania | 2016

In 2015 soldiers were to be seen almost everywhere around the Black Sea. Sabina Fati decided to go for a trip around the Black Sea via Ukraine, Russia, Crimea Abkhazia, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania, which resulted in a book that helps us clear our history, geopolitics and world culture in which we are placed.

Original language: Romanian
ISBN 9789735054946

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Monica Macovei
Romania

After three months traveling around the Black Sea coast, Sabina Fati, writer, academic and Radio Free Europe Correspondent reflects in this book the people and politics of the countries along the Black Sea coast. This reporting trip took her through Romania, Ukraine, Crimea, Russia, Georgia, and Turkey. According to the author the geography of the Black Sea should unite those who live there, but instead politics divide people and they suffer as a result

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Inese Vaidere
Latvia

Poetry

The 1001st Blackish-Blue Night

| 2018

The 1001st Blackish-Blue Night

Poetry

Lavtia | 2018

This is a book of transformations – as musicians and translators render one another’s interpretations, printed and sung poems become renderings, renderings become songs once again. It is precisely that element which is the most interesting in “The 1001st Blackish-Blue Night” – the aim of this collection is not to introduce Ziedonis himself to an English speaking audience, but rather – to discover the poetic potential of Ziedonis’ poetry to create new texts, to discover some of the many transformation possibilities of poetry language. (Description from Jumava)

Original language: Latvian/English
ISBN 9934201674

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Inese Vaidere
Latvia

Imants Ziedonis is probably the most influential and well-known Latvian poet of recent decades. In order to translate the poetry, the translator has to feel its melody and I believe Mr. Šteinbergs has succeeded at it. The artist Līga Kitchen has done a wonderful job with the illustrations which truly inspire to read the book.

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Karlo Ressler
Croatia

Non-fiction

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

| 2012

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Non-fiction

USA | 2012

In this “landmark contribution to humanity’s understanding of itself” (The New York Times Book Review) social psychologist Jonathan Haidt challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike.

Original language: English
ISBN 9780307377906

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Karlo Ressler
Croatia

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Catherine Stihler
UK

Non-fiction

The Twenty Year Crisis 1919-1939

Edward Hallett Carr | 1939

The Twenty Year Crisis 1919-1939

Non-fiction

Edward Hallett Carr
UK | 1939

E. H. Carr's classic work on international relations was immediately recognized by friend and foe alike as a defining work. The author was one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the 20th century. The issues and themes he developed continue to have relevance to modern day concerns with power and its distribution in the international system.

Original language: English
Available in: Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
ISBN 9780061311222

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Catherine Stihler
UK

Expert pick

Fiction

Swing Time

Zadie Smith | 2016

Swing Time

Fiction

Zadie Smith
UK | 2016

Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, about what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either.

Original language: English
Available in: Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian
ISBN 9780241144152

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MEP
Eva Maydell
Bulgaria

Fiction

Остров Крах

Ina Vultchanova | 2016

Остров Крах

The Crack-Up Island

Fiction

Ina Vultchanova
Bulgaria | 2016

The Crack-Up Island presents two women telling their singular stories. They barely know each other, yet a magic liaison exists between them, because one of them is a newly self-initiated amateur astrologer and reads in the stars that a coming crack-up is threatening the other. Each of the women knows only her part of the story and the narrative pieces have to be fitted into one whole by the reader, like in a puzzle.

Original language: Bulgarian
Available in: English
ISBN 9789549612325

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Eva Maydell
Bulgaria

Laureate of the European Literature Prize 2017

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Agnes Jongerius
the Netherlands

Children Book

Tow-Truck Pluck

Annie M.G. Schmidt | 1971

Tow-Truck Pluck

Children Book

Annie M.G. Schmidt
the Netherlands | 1971

Pluck has a little red tow truck. He drives it all over town looking for a place to live. Then Dolly the pigeon tells him that the tower of the Pill Building is empty...

Original language: Dutch
Available in: Bulgarian, Danish, English, Estonian, Hungarian, Slovenian
ISBN 9781782691129

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Agnes Jongerius
the Netherlands

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Guillaume Balas
France

Fiction

L'hibiscus pourpre

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 2003

L'hibiscus pourpre

Purple Hibiscus

Fiction

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
USA/Nigeria | 2003

Fifteen-year-old Kambili’s world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili’s father sends her and her brother away to stay with their aunt. There they discover a life and love beyond the confines of their father’s authority.

Original language: English
Available in: Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Portugues
ISBN 9782253113294

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Guillaume Balas
France

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Helga Trüpel
Germany

Essay

After Europe

Ivan Krastev | 2017

After Europe

Essay

Ivan Krastev
USA | 2017

In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Union - and its potential lack of a future. With far-right nationalist parties on the rise across the continent and Brexit, the EU is in disarray and plagued by doubts as never before.

Original language: English
Available in: Bulgarian, German, Polish, Swedish
ISBN 9780812249439

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Helga Trüpel
Germany

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Kaja Kallas
Estonia

Essay

Hõbevalge

Lennart Meri | 1976

Hõbevalge

"Silver White"

Essay

Lennart Meri
Estonia | 1976

This book focuses on the ancient history of Estonia and the Baltic region. Hõbvalge is based on geographical sources mainly derived from ancient navigators and reveals a careful analysis of the secret of the legendary Ultima Thule. Thule is the name that was given by the Greeks and Latins to the land farthest ever achieved in the North, and found to be situated six-day trip from Britain.

Original language: Estonian
Available in: Finnish, Italian
ISBN 9789949159239

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Kaja Kallas
Estonia