Croatian literature

Radovi na krovu: sedam džepnih krimića

Seven short, independent stories in the "pocket crime novel" format by the master of Croatian crime fiction: fast, tense, concise, with unexpected twists and Pavličić's typical blend of everyday life and crime.

Rain / Kiša

Rain is a bilingual collection of poems by Arsen Dedić. The book contains a selection of Dedić's poems with parallel English translations, focusing on the themes of rain as a metaphor for melancholy, transience, love, loneliness, and urban life.

Rakovac u Vinovrhu

In the novel Rakovac u Vinovrh, the character of an idealistically committed young man who fights against the economic and national oppression of Croatia appears.

Rakova djeca

Rakov's children are a tense read in which the editor of the black chronicle, Ivo Remetin, visits a friend who died in a traffic accident and becomes involved in an intriguing search for the killer of cancer patients.

Rani dani - Kako smo odrastali uz filmove i televiziju

In his autobiographical prose, Early Days (1997), Goran Tribuson evokes childhood and early adulthood in Bjelovar through the prism of film and television. An extraordinarily humorous story about ordinary life in the 1960s.

Ranjeni pejzaž

A book by Vladimir Mičetić, a doctor and volunteer of the Homeland War from Kutina. The work was awarded the literary prize "We Were the First When It Was Necessary" for 2010, awarded by the Association of Croatian Homeland War Veterans.

Rasipnici

Raskomadana vremena

Raskomadana vremena (2022) is the latest book by Rade Kovačević (1939–2024), a writer from Osijek, critic, essayist and long-time professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Osijek, published under the pseudonym Edgar F. Smith.

Raskrižje kaosa

Rašomon

If the stories and their protagonists could choose, the endings would certainly be different. But the rolling speculations that life and literature place under our feet do not care about such things.