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The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B
1.  The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B by J. P. Donleavy
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  "America - Forget the daft title, this novel is both hauntingly elegaic and profoundly funny."
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The Red Horse: A Novel
2.  The Red Horse: A Novel by Eugenio Corti
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  "Italy - The Italian 'War and Peace'. Epic. Don't let yourself be put off by the clumsy translation."
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The Best Short Stories (Wordsworth Classics)
3.  The Best Short Stories (Wordsworth Classics) by Guy de Maupassant
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  "France - Punchy and timeless. Vignettes of endless charm."
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Zorba the Greek (FF Classics)
4.  Zorba the Greek (FF Classics) by Nikos Kazantzakis
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  "Greece - Philosophy and adventure, both delivered with gusto."
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Life And Fate
5.  Life And Fate by Vasily Grossman
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  "Russia - Panoramic and deeply moving War epic."
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Foucault's Pendulum
6.  Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
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  "Italy - A 'Da Vinci Code' for grown ups."
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The Dumas Club
7.  The Dumas Club by Arturo Peréz-Reverte
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  "Spain - More  literary occult conspiracy."
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The Discovery of Heaven
8.  The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
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  "Holland - And if you enjoyed the above two..."
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The Damned (Penguin Classics)
9.  The Damned (Penguin Classics) by Joris-Karl Huysmans
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  "France - Group of blokes swilling calvados and gorging on mussels, as they discuss black magic. What a way to spend a winter's evening!"
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The Sorrow of Belgium (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
10.  The Sorrow of Belgium (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Hugo Claus
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  "Belgium - Excellent bildungsroman set in occupied Belgium."
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A Fine Balance
11.  A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
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  "India - Deeply affecting. Seldom have I cared so much about a novel's characters."
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The Little World of Don Camillo
12.  The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi
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  "Italy - To have missed out on these tales from Emilia-Romagna, when growing up was indeed a deprived childhood."
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Maria
13.  Maria by Jorge Isaacs
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  "Colombia - This romantic novel/social document is legendary throughout Latin America. It cries out for an English translation!"
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Inferno from an Occult Diary (Penguin Classics)
14.  Inferno from an Occult Diary (Penguin Classics) by August Strindberg
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  "Sweden - a chilling insight into a man's mental and physical collapse in the garrets of Stockholm."
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Nadja (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
15.  Nadja (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Andre Breton
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  "France - Fascinating period piece. Surrealist Andre Breton's hallucinatory high jinx in 20s Paris."
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Paris Peasant
16.  Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon
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  "France - If anything, a Surrealist literary document more mesmerising and barmy than 'Nadja'."
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Christ Stopped at Eboli (Penguin Modern Classics)
17.  Christ Stopped at Eboli (Penguin Modern Classics) by Carlo Levi
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  "Italy - Marvellous account of an intellectual's 1930s political exile in the 'Deep South' of the Italian peninsula."
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Barabbas (Vintage International)
18.  Barabbas (Vintage International) by Lagerkvist
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  "Sweden - Fascinating examination of the nature of religious faith by one of the princes of Scandinavian existential angst."
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Tailor And Ansty
19.  Tailor And Ansty by Eric Cross
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  "Ireland - Condemned at the time for being insufficiently dour, this 40s piece of garrulity is both comic biography and fascinating insight into Ireland's rural culture of that era."
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Jeppe Of The Hill
20.  Jeppe Of The Hill by Ludvig Holberg
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  "Denmark - The classic Danish comedy. They show it on TV at every Christmas I gather."
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Narcissus and Goldmund
21.  Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
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  "Germany - Lovely piece, simply and elegantly told. Two chaps take diverging paths in life: One the Dionysian, the other the Apollonian."
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