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.
Brimming with barely contained passion and cruelty, the precision of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession, and the fear of failure - the Glass Room contains it all.
Abacus, 2009.
English. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
8.46 €
Picture Books and Fairy Tales • Novel • Fantastic literature • Scandinavian literature
One of the biggest names in contemporary world literature in the mature period of his rich writing career dabbled in fairy tales. In the acclaimed novel Paradise Lost, he weaves a seductive tale of angels, love and the search for a primal beginning.
Fraktura, 2010.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
The action of the novel takes place during just one day in Gdańsk. The heroes of the novel are acquaintances who should arrive at the agreed time for a joint photo shoot, and according to the photo taken, their mutual friend will paint the Last Supper.
In the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a solitary existence.
A large red beech tree stands in front of the school in a small Irish town. In one moment of their youth, eight students will carve their names on its bark. Their lives will take different paths, but the memory of the big beech tree and the names carved i