„The Jewel in the Crown“ ist ein Roman von Paul Scott aus dem Jahr 1966, mit dem sein Raj-Quartett beginnt. Die vierbändige Romanreihe des Quartetts spielt in den letzten Tagen der britischen Herrschaft in Indien während des Zweiten Weltkriegs.
Proza Lane Derkač spada u one rijetke iznimke koje ne pristaju na utrkivanje po ljestvicama čitanosti i prilagođavanje zakonima tržišne logike, iznimke u kojima su suptilnost i promišljanje nadređeni fabularizaciji i koketiranju s čitateljima.
The novel itself is conceptually carried by a lucid comparison of Dalmatia and the Wild West: on a thematic level, cowboys are the mythical place of the childhood of the main character and her brother.
This short novel deserves to be called a classic. Its heroine, Holly Golightly, an eccentric young woman with a whimsical and unconventional demeanor, simply gets under the skin of the people around her and the readers of this novel.