Historical novel

Zanzibar ili posljednji razlog

The existentialist novel follows five alienated individuals in a small Baltic town under Nazi rule, unexpectedly brought together by a dangerous mission to save a forbidden wooden sculpture—and their own lives.

Zastave 1-5

Miroslav Krleža

Flags follows the turbulent period of Croatian history from 1912 to 1922 through the family showdown between the father and son of the Emerics, but the family story is only a basis for problematizing the Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, and Albanian nationa

Zavedeni mjesečinom: Treći slučaj Merry Gentry

Meredith Gentry, a fairy and private investigator, is vying for the throne of Twilight Court. To survive and save her kind, she must become pregnant and avoid the deadly traps of her brutal cousin, Celain.

Za zemlju

The novel depicts the difficult, primitive and dramatic life of the Ukrainian countryside. Through the fates of peasants fighting for a piece of land and survival, the novel chronicles their love for the soil and their indestructible attachment to their n

Zemlja sreskih galebova

Ženski orkestar

Fanie Fénelon's novel The Women's Orchestra is a memoir that describes her experience of surviving in a women's orchestra at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II.

Život Byrona

The biography The Life of Byron (1930) by André Maurois, is a detailed account of the life and works of the English Romantic poet George Gordon Byron (1788–1824).

Život Ivana Matića: Bogu dušu

Viola Matagić Šinko’s biographical-historical work portrays the life journey of Ivan Matić, offering a poignant testament to faith, human suffering, one’s homeland, and devotion to God and the people during difficult times.

Zlatarovo zlato

August Šenoa

The first Croatian historical novel - the most Zagreb of all stories. It is a story about the forbidden love of a goldsmith's daughter and a nobleman's son on the historical stage of Zagreb's streets and squares in the sixteenth century.

Zvonar bogorodičine crkve

Victor Hugo

The Bell Tower (1831) is not just a story of love and tragedy – it is a vivid picture of Paris on the threshold of the Renaissance, where the Gothic Notre-Dame Cathedral becomes almost the main character, a living being of stone that breathes history, suf