Tibor Fischer's Top 10 Eastern European Novels

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Tibor Fischer, author of the Booker-shortlisted Under the Frog and The Thought Gang, was selected as one of Granta's 20 best British young novelists in 1993. This is his list of the Top 10 Eastern European novels.

This list was originally published in 2003 and was added to this site almost 2 years ago.

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Rank	Book	Authors	Year	Country	Language
159	The Good Soldier Švejk	Jaroslav Hašek	1921	Czech	Czech
474	Embers	Sandor Marai	1942	Hungarian	Hungarian
2609	The Gambler	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1866	Russian	Russian
148	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	1962	Russian	Russian
1131	Ashes and Diamonds	Jerzy Andrzejewski	1948	Polish	Polish
17165	Omon Ra	Victor Pelevin	1992	Russian	Russian
3036	They Were Counted	Miklos Banffy	1934	Hungarian	Hungarian
16667	They Were Found Wanting	Miklos Banffy	1937	Hungarian	Hungarian
16667	They Were Divided	Miklos Banffy	1940	Hungarian	Hungarian
1722	The Joke	Milan Kundera	1967	Czech	Czech
1258	The General of the Dead Army	Ismail Kadare	1963	Albanian	Albanian
17165	Memoir Of A Russian Punk	Eduard Limonov	1983	Russian	Russian