The Jewel in the Crown is a 1966 novel by Paul Scott that begins his Paradise Quartet. The Quartet novel sequence in four volumes is set in the last days of British rule in India during World War II.
The essays collected in this book reveal the origins and meanders of Sanja Lovrenčić's years-long search for the authentic character of Ivana Brlić Mažuranić.
Mala zvona, 2024.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
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Croatian literature • A war novel • Psychological novel
War-psychological prose set during the Homeland War (1991–1995), with a focus on Slavonia and partly on events in Bosnia. The work belongs to a cycle of prose about the war and women's experiences in it.
This is a manuscript first of all about yourself, about your own connection with the city, but also about the present and past of Berlin, and that then means about the death that is written into the history of a city that, more than others, grew together
It is a deeply disturbing text, full of emotions and traumatic experiences of a collapsed, imploded urban individual crying out for the meaning of life.
The book contains chronologically arranged stories published during Kafka's lifetime, except for the last four, which he approved for publication but, unfortunately, did not live to see publication.