Tibor Fischer's Top 10 Eastern European Novels
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The Guardian , 12 Books
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 over 1 year ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 158 | The Good Soldier Švejk | Jaroslav Hašek | 1921 | Czech | Czech | |
| 474 | Embers | Sandor Marai | 1942 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 2606 | The Gambler | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1866 | Russian | Russian | |
| 148 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 1962 | Russian | Russian | |
| 1130 | Ashes and Diamonds | Jerzy Andrzejewski | 1948 | Polish | Polish | |
| 17008 | Omon Ra | Victor Pelevin | 1992 | Russian | Russian | |
| 3029 | They Were Counted | Miklos Banffy | 1934 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 16520 | They Were Found Wanting | Miklos Banffy | 1937 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 16520 | They Were Divided | Miklos Banffy | 1940 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 1721 | The Joke | Milan Kundera | 1967 | Czech | Czech | |
| 1257 | The General of the Dead Army | Ismail Kadare | 1963 | Albanian | Albanian | |
| 17008 | Memoir Of A Russian Punk | Eduard Limonov | 1983 | Russian | Russian |