Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Ten top books about Europe

Laurent Gaudé is a French novelist and playwright. After being nominated for the 2002 Prix Concourt with The Death of King Tsongor, he won the award in 2004 for his novel The House of Scorta.

His new book is Our Europe: Banquet of Nations.

At the Guardian, Gaudé tagged his top ten books about Europe, including:
The Truce [US title: The Reawakening by Primo Levi

I could have chosen If This Is a Man, a sober and clinical telling of our great black hole. But The Truce sheds light on an a lesser-known, less debated aspect of the Holocaust: the return. Levi invites us to imagine what Europe was like a few months after the Allied victory: a field of ruins, full of shadows trying to return home.
Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue