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.
In the novel, the author describes and comments on domestic socio-political phenomena with dark humor and criticism, almost vaudeville-like, while using a good deal of lively and juicy Međimurje speech.
Naklada Ljevak, 2024.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
This short novel deserves to be called a classic. Its heroine, Holly Golightly, an eccentric young woman with a whimsical and unconventional demeanor, simply gets under the skin of the people around her and the readers of this novel.
What it's like to grow up in a family where roles are mixed up, can be told by teenager Viktorija, who sometimes acts as a mom to her mother. How is that possible?
In the novel Kućni ljudi (People of the House) by Almin Kaplan, the intimate stories of a Herzegovinian family depict everyday life, quiet anxiety, and changes in village life - a meeting of tradition, nostalgia, and contemporary stratification.
As much as Foliranti is a story about Kapor's student days in Belgrade in the late fifties, Provincial is a book that evokes memories of his childhood in Sarajevo, where the author spent the first years of his life.