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.
Selvedin Avdić writes in such a way that the reader can't get rid of the excerpts they have read, and when they read the book to the end, probably on the ex, they unmistakably feel that they have been infected by it.
"The Man and the Boy" by Tony Parsons, a debut novel published in 1999, tells the story of Harry Silver, a thirty-year-old successful TV producer in London, whose perfect life is ruined by an affair.
It is a lyrically intoned work that combines elements of a romance novel, psychological drama, and social criticism, set in the contemporary urban milieu of Zagreb in the 1970s and early 1980s.
August Cesarec, 1983.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.