Miana Vlaović's debut novel is a story about three generations of women in a patriarchal province, filled with recurring patterns of fate - love, betrayal, poverty, violence, and small struggles for dignity.
The House is a novel about the everyday life of a small man in late socialist Yugoslavia. Through the fate of Daniel Beker and his dreams of returning to his homeland, Bauer builds a warm, humorous and bitter fresco of a time.
Fraktura, 2024.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
11.38 €
Croatian literature • Folk literature • Short Stories • School reading
This popular reading edition of Zagrebačka stvarnosti brings a selection of the most entertaining and famous Croatian folk humorous stories - those that have been told by the hearth for centuries, and today are part of the required reading for elementary
Zagrebačka stvarnost, 2002.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
7.86 €
Croatian literature • Humor and Satire • Historical novel
In the novel Donkeys' Ribs Are Cracking - The Notes of a Town Scribe, Leo Držić humorously brings 17th-century Zagreb to life through the notes of clerk Dominik Pivarić. Through the conflicts between Gradec and Kaptol, a satirical chronicle of power, pett
Lana Derkač's prose is one of those rare exceptions that does not agree to race on readership charts and adapt to the laws of market logic, exceptions in which subtlety and reflection take precedence over fabularization and flirting with readers.
VBZ, 2009.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
7.22 €
Croatian literature • Short Stories • School reading
This edition brings four key stories by Vjenceslav Novak (1859–1905), one of the most important Croatian realists, known for his social sensitivity and depictions of urban poverty at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.