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Jiří Šotola's quasi-historical novel Pile on a Spit depicts the absurdity of life through the story of the antihero – the puppeteer Matija Pile (Matěj Kuře), a puppeteer of history during the Napoleonic Wars. The novel criticizes totalitarianism through b
Hungry Hill (1943) is a saga of five generations of the Anglo-Irish Brodrick family, owners of Clonmere Castle in Ireland. Du Maurier, a master of Gothic prose, weaves together folklore, curses, and social change, showing how greed destroys heirs.
A novel by Igor Torkar (Boris Fakin) dealing with "Dachau processes". Through a mixture of documentary and fiction, Torkar exposes the taboo subject of the communist regime, basing the story on his own experience as a prisoner in Dachau and Goli otok.
"The Secret of the Bloody Bridge" (1912) is the first novel in the famous "Grička vještica" cycle (a total of seven volumes). Published in 1912 in installments in "Mali novine", it became an instant hit and the foundation of popular Croatian historical-ad
In her second historical novel, the contemporary American writer brings us the story of Nefertari, the niece of the former Queen Nefertiti.
Milion is an account of Marco Polo's travels in Asia, which he undertook between 1271 and 1295, and his experiences at the court of Kublai Khan, the greatest Eastern ruler of the time, in whose service Marco was for almost 17 years.