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.
It is a deeply disturbing text, full of emotions and traumatic experiences of a collapsed, imploded urban individual crying out for the meaning of life.
The disturbing and emotionally exhausting story tells about a painter who, with her artistic passion, opposed the expectations imposed on her by her parents.
Naklada Ljevak, 2021.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
The work is based on a true event that occurred in Spain in 1933: Aurora Rodriguez killed her daughter Hildegart, a famous fighter for women's emancipation and a cult figure on the political scene of the time.
Mladost, 1990.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
On a secluded lighthouse, former first-class captain Branimir Bato Lončar and his wife Danica live a monotonous everyday life, occasionally disturbed by a stray tourist or a boat in danger.
Fraktura, 2020.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
Condensed, without interruptions, without dialogue, in one chapter, masterfully written, meticulously created, Calypso is Ognjen Spahić's tour de force.
Fraktura, 2017.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
Before us is a sociopolitical novel with a complex anti-utopian vision, which with its mature, colorful, charismatic and striking characters, as well as the original composition, not without an ironic deviation, gives a fresco of an alternative developmen