For the past five years, has been making a success of publishing attractively-packaged literary novels in translation. One of its titles, The Elegance of the Hedgehog by , has turned out to be a surprise hit and has held its place on the New York Times bestseller list for six weeks now.
Given the adverse effects the current economic downturn has had on the book industry at large, Europa's success is all the more astonishing, according to one article in the New York Times.
Good news like this is worth sharing, so I thought I'd post a list below of some of the Europa titles customers have been picking up here at McNally Robinson Booksellers. Who knows? Maybe you'll find the perfect title to get you through the rest of what has been a very long winter.
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We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers...
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Sophie Marks' path to artistic and personal fulfillment takes her from World War II England to postwar Paris and the Italian countryside. She leaves Europe in 1967 and spends the next two...
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A small culturally mixed community living in an apartment building in the center of Rome is thrown into disarray when one of the neighbors is murdered. An investigation ensues and as each...
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A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its Italian public when first published. It is the gripping story of a woman's descent into...
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Adrift in the grimy pubs of London at the outbreak of World War II, George Bone is hopelessly infatuated with Netta, a contemptuous, small-time actress. George suffers from occasional bla...
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The story of the Arab world's greatest and most popular singer, Umm Kulthum, told through the eyes of the poet Ahmad Rami, who wrote her lyrics and loved her in vain all his life. Spannin...
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A modern love story with the force of an ancient Greek tragedy. Set on the spectacular Cycladic island of Andros, The Jasmine Isle one of the finest literary achievements in contemporary ...
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From the author of The Days of Abandonment, The Lost Daughter is Elena Ferrante's most compelling and perceptive meditation on womanhood and motherhood yet. Leda, a middle-aged divorce, i...
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Stefano Benni's enormously popular and distinctive mix of the absurd and the satiri-cal has made him one of Italy's most important and best-loved novelists. This is his twelfth best-selli...
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These spellbinding stories of adventure and discovery are populated with explorers, fortune hunters, revolutionaries, seafarers, ship’s captains, and smugglers. But the undeniable protago...
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Amlie is a young language teacher living in Tokyo. When she succumbs to the attentions of a student--the shy, wealthy, and oh-so-Japanese Rinri--the lovers find themselves swept along by ...
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A riveting drama of guilt, revenge, and justice, Massimo Carlotto's Death's Dark Abyss tells the story of two men and the savage crime that binds them. During a robbery, Raffaello Beggiat...
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This first installment in the legendary Marseilles Trilogy sees Fabio Montale turning his back on a police force marred by corruption and racism and taking the fight against the mafia int...
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Len Tarbutt is serving a life sentence for attempted homicide. After a brief period in jail, he is transferred to the maximum-security ward of a mental hospital, where moments of absurdit...
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