Central Europe


The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Metamorphosis
The Door
The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1)
I Served the King of England
Chess Story
The Trial
The Joke
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe
The Castle
Embers (Vintage International)
A Time of Gifts (Trilogy, #1)
The Good Soldier Švejk
The World of Yesterday
Night
How I Came to Know Fish by Ota PavelWar with the Newts by Karel ČapekThe Elephant by Sławomir MrożekLife is a Dream by Gyula KrúdyThe Cowards by Josef Škvorecký
Penguin Central European Classics
10 books — 11 voters
Blackshirts and Reds by Michael ParentiThe Magic Lantern by Timothy Garton AshRevolution 1989 by Victor SebestyenThe Collapse of the Soviet Union by International Communist Sem...Coward by Jaroslav Balek
The Velvet Revolution - 1989
34 books — 5 voters

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz BorowskiThe Street of Crocodiles by Bruno SchulzThe Joke by Milan KunderaFerdydurke by Witold GombrowiczA Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš
Penguin Writers from the Other Europe
17 books — 11 voters
The Trigger by Tim ButcherBerlin 1961 by Frederick KempeIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumThe Magic Lantern by Timothy Garton AshWhite Eagle, Red Star by Norman Davies
20th Century History of Central Europe
199 books — 57 voters

Katalin Street by Magda SzabóThe Door by Magda SzabóThe Paul Street Boys by Ferenc MolnárUnshakeable by Molly MacKenzieThe Righteous by Ronald H. Balson
Budapest
20 books — 11 voters

Christopher Hitchens
I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the National Geographic tracing service and there it all is: the arrow moving northward from the African savannah, skirting the Mediterranean by way of the Levant, and passing through Eastern and Central Europe before crossing to the British Isles. And all of this knowable by an analysis of the cells on the inside of my mouth. I almost prefer the more rambling and indirect and journalistic investigation, which seems somehow less… de ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

Péter Zilahy
If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.
Péter Zilahy, The Last Window-Giraffe: A Picture Dictionary for the over Fives

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