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The novel depicts turbulent events in early medieval Croatia, the struggle for power, external threats, and the fates of characters caught up in political intrigue and wars – symbolically the "lion's claws" as a danger threatening the Croatian state and p
A scientific documentary novel about the discovery of radium, which tells the story of Marie and Pierre Curie, the medical revolution, but also the dark side – speculation, the fight for monopoly and the tragic consequences of radioactivity on people.
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Hajduk Nikola Šuhaj (1933) is the most famous novel by Ivan Olbracht (real name Kamil Zeman, 1882–1952), a classic of 20th-century Czech literature. One of the most important works of Czech literature between the two wars.
In this extraordinary, carefully crafted story, every word is a possible clue, and the characters are so engaged that the reader must join in trying to help them solve the puzzle.
The combination of idyll and tragic fate has made this historical novel a literary testimony that draws its literary strength from the contrast between nature and history, emotions and facts, landscapes and politics, birds and bullets, human destinies and