"Purpurni vek" is the first book of the trilogy about the Dukajs.
The action takes place in Europe around 1848 and follows the story of two brothers from Hungary who are completely politically and ideologically different: Dali Dukaj is an ardent lover of freedom, while Antal Dukaj is a conservative bureaucrat.
For about ten years, the novel was the most widely read book, which, thanks to the interest of the readers of that time in the historical events that marked the time of the conspiracy of Croatian and Hungarian noblemen against the Austrian crown, had a hu