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.
Kafka wrote The Process between 1914 and 1915, published posthumously in 1925. The novel is unfinished but with an added final chapter by Max Brod. Edition with a foreword by B. Živojinović and an afterword by Walter Killi.
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.
VBZ, 2014.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
7.82 €
Croatian literature • Detective Stories • Psychological novel • Thriller • First editions
Imagine Zagreb in the 1980s, where behind the gray facades of apartment buildings lies a dream world of the far West – Hollywood, freedom and endless possibilities. Tribuson, a master of Croatian prose, here combines genres into one fluid story that bites
Znanje, 1986.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
The work is based on a true event that occurred in Spain in 1933: Aurora Rodriguez killed her daughter Hildegart, a famous fighter for women's emancipation and a cult figure on the political scene of the time.
Mladost, 1990.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
4.963.49 - 4.984.96 €
German literature • Psychological novel • Social literature
In Boll's novels, one of the central themes is the attempt to preserve basic moral values in a time of terror, as well as in a period of material prosperity and corruption.