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.
Melanie Gideon, an American writer known for her humorous novels about family dynamics, dissects the monotony of marriage in the age of social media in The Marriage Trap (2012).
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.
BIGZ, 1990.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
4.26 €
Erotic Novels • Croatian literature • Psychological novel
Branislav Glumac published a novel without periods or commas in 1974, as the relentless stream of thought of a young rebel. Published in socialist Yugoslavia, the work caused a scandal with its openness and became a classic about generational rebellion.
IROS, 1986.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
8.24 €
Humor and Satire • Psychological novel • Czech literature
Bohumil Hrabal, a Czech writer known for his lyrical grotesque and humor, in his novel The Town Where Time Stood Still evokes childhood in the small town of Libeň (part of Prague), where time seems to stand still in a magical but melancholic world.
Hena Com, 2006.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
7.62 €
Literature for children • School reading • Teen Novels • Psychological novel • Russian literature
Childhood (1852) is the first book of an autobiographical trilogy (with Adolescence and Youth), where Tolstoy explores the world of childhood through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, Nikolinka Irtenjev – innocence, joys, sorrows and first traumas.