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East European and Eurasian novels

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Khent (The Fool)

Khent (The Fool) is a historical and political novel by the Armenian writer Raffi, first published in 1880–1881 and set during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, arguing for Armenian self-reliance.

Kvachi Kvachantiradze

Kvachi Kvachantiradze (კვაჭი კვაჭანტირაძე) is a 1925 picaresque novel by the Georgian writer Mikheil Javakhishvili, following a con man through World War I, the Russian Revolution, and Georgia's Soviet incorporation.

Land of Nairi

Land of Nairi (Yerkir Nairi) is the only novel of the Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents, written in 1921–1924 and regarded as a foundational text of modern Armenian literary modernism.

Landscape Painted with Tea

Landscape Painted with Tea (Predeo slikan čajem) is a 1988 novel by the Serbian writer Milorad Pavić, constructed so its chapters can be read across or down like a crossword puzzle.

Leucippe and Clitophon

Leucippe and Clitophon (Τὰ κατὰ Λευκίππην καὶ Κλειτοφῶντα) is an ancient Greek novel in eight books by Achilles Tatius of Alexandria, circulating by the mid-2nd century CE.

Meeting at the Milestone

Meeting at the Milestone (Møte ved milepelen) is a 1947 Norwegian novel by Sigurd Hoel, narrated by a resistance member investigating why his former fellow students became Nazis.

Migrations

Migrations (Seobe, Сеобе) is a two-volume novel by the Serbian writer Miloš Crnjanski about the fate of Serbs in the 18th-century Habsburg Monarchy, first published in 1929 and completed in 1962.

Missing Soluch

Missing Soluch (Jā-ye ḵāli-e Soluč) is a novel by the Iranian writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, first published in 1979 and set in the village of Zaminej in northeastern Iran.

Mr. Mani

Mr. Mani (Hebrew: מר מאני) is a 1990 Hebrew novel by Israeli writer A. B. Yehoshua that follows a Sephardi Jewish family across five generations through five one-sided conversations.

Namus

Namus (Նամուս) is an 1885 novel by the Armenian writer Alexander Shirvanzade, set in Shamakhi, about lovers destroyed by a provincial town's code of honor.

Nasrallah Munshi's Kalila wa Dimna

Nasrallah Munshi's Kalila wa Dimna (Kalileh o Demneh) is Nasr-Allah Munshi's 1142 Persian adaptation of the Arabic fables, the founding work of Persian artistic prose.

Niels Lyhne

Niels Lyhne is an 1880 Danish novel by Jens Peter Jacobsen following its title character from birth in 1828 to his death as a soldier in 1864.

Ninay

Ninay is a novel in Spanish by Pedro Alejandro Paterno, published in Madrid in 1885 and generally considered the first novel written by a Filipino author.

On the Edge of Reason

On the Edge of Reason (Na rubu pameti) is a 1938 novel by the Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža, in which a Zagreb lawyer is branded insane for speaking one truth aloud.

On the Hill

On the Hill (Na klancu) is a 1902 novel by Slovenian writer Ivan Cankar, a key work of Slovenian Moderna depicting a poor family's poverty, motherhood, and hope.

Only a Fiddler

Only a Fiddler (Kun en Spillemand) is a novel by the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, published in 1837, about a poor tailor's son whose musical talent is never supported.

Out Stealing Horses

Out Stealing Horses (Ut og stjæle hester) is a 2003 novel by Norwegian author Per Petterson about Trond Sander, whose memories return of the summer of 1948 with his father.

Pirej

Pirej (Пиреј) is a 1980 historical novel by the Macedonian writer Petre M. Andreevski, portraying a married couple torn apart by the Balkan Wars and World War I.

Planine

Planine is a pastoral and allegorical romance by the Croatian Renaissance writer Petar Zoranić, written in 1536 and printed in Venice in 1569, generally regarded as the first Croatian novel.

Po-on

Po-on, published internationally as Dusk, is a 1984 historical novel by Filipino writer F. Sionil José; its title is Ilocano for roots, and it opens his five-novel Rosales Saga.

Pop Ćira and Pop Spira

Pop Ćira and Pop Spira is an 1894 humorous novel by the Serbian writer Stevan Sremac about the rivalry of two Orthodox priests' families in Vojvodina.

Rachathirat

Rachathirat is a Thai prose chronicle-novel about the Mon king Rachathirat, translated from Mon documents by Chao Phraya Phra Khlang under King Rama I in 1785.

Rakes of the Old Court

Rakes of the Old Court (Craii de Curtea-Veche) is a 1929 Romanian novel by Mateiu I. Caragiale following three dissolute Bucharest men through taverns and gambling dens.

Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag

Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag ("In the Claws of Light") is a Tagalog social-realist novel by Edgardo M. Reyes about a provincial fisherman exploited in Manila.

Samvel

Samvel (Armenian: Սամվել) is an 1886 historical novel by the Armenian writer Raffi, set in fourth-century Armenia torn between Persia and Byzantium and regarded as the peak of Armenian historical fiction.

Sangnoksu

Sangnoksu (상록수, "Evergreen Tree") is a rural enlightenment novel by the Korean writer Sim Hun, serialized in the Dong-A Ilbo in 127 installments from September 1935 to February 1936.

Satan in Goray

Satan in Goray (Yiddish: Der Sotn in Goray) is the first novel of Isaac Bashevis Singer, a historical novel set in 1666 amid the Sabbatai Zevi messianic movement.

Saturnin

Saturnin is a humorous 1942 novel by the Czech writer Zdeněk Jirotka, narrated by a young Prague gentleman whose placid life is overturned by his new valet.

See Under: Love

See Under: Love (Hebrew: עיין ערך: אהבה) is a 1986 novel by Israeli writer David Grossman about the Holocaust's afterlife among survivors and their children.

Shira

Shira, the last unfinished novel of Hebrew writer S. Y. Agnon, follows a Jerusalem lecturer torn between his wife and a nurse, published posthumously in 1971.