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 second novel in the Kane and Abel series, continuing the saga begun in "Kane and Abel." The story follows Florentyna Rosnovski, daughter of Polish immigrant Abel Rosnovski, whose ambition and strength of spirit guide her through the turbulent life of
The tea ceremony, arranging flowers, arranging gardens and the art of creating beautiful porcelain stand in the background of this novel as symbols of the eternal and timeless in human creativity.
Along with Crystal Grids, The Door of the Womb is undoubtedly the pinnacle of Kovač's novelistic art, but also one of the novelistic pinnacles of recent novels in the South Slavic speaking area.
Večernji list, 2004.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.