Fashion photographer Laura is gaining fame by shooting her exclusive models, full of erotic charge, on the streets of the metropolis, where violence and crime reign.
Suddenly, under strange circumstances, several of Laura's friends are killed. He is in a panic, because he experiences every murder in his consciousness, like the eye of a camera.
"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.
Profil Knjiga, 2011.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
3.26 €
Novel • Humor and Satire • Russian literature
Dead Souls (1842) is a brilliant satire that exposes the moral and social rot of imperial Russia through Chichikov's fraud with dead serfs, with Gogol's virtuoso mix of humor, irony and lyricism.
The Lying Life of Adults (2019), a stand-alone novel by Elena Ferrante, takes us to Naples in the 1990s through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Giovanna Trade, a bright, middle-class girl whose world falls apart with the discovery of her family's lies.
The novel, whose original title is L'Homme de plâtre, explores complex human destinies through the story of a protagonist whose life symbolically reflects fragility and vulnerability, like plaster.
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Znanje, 1987.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.