A Pennyworth of Sunshine

Twopenny Rainbows

Maskarada / Bračna ljubav

In "Masquerade," Moravia satirically depicts fascist Italy through absurd political intrigue and disguise. "Marital Love" intimately explores erotic tension, possessiveness, and emotional alienation in everyday life.

Kvaka braka

Melanie Gideon, an American writer known for her humorous novels about family dynamics, dissects the monotony of marriage in the age of social media in The Marriage Trap (2012).

Pravila za ljubav

Typical of Ward and Keeland: emotional, entertaining, with an unavoidable single father, smoldering romances, humor, steamy scenes, and a happy ending. A book about opposites complementing each other and the power of love to heal wounds.

Ne traži me u sebi

"Don't Look for Me Within You" is a classic romance novel ("ljubić") in the spirit of popular trivial literature in 1980s Yugoslavia. An interesting example of the popular culture of socialism and the construction of female identity in trivial literature.

Vjera i ljepota

In the novel Faith and Beauty (1840), Niccolò Tommaseo follows the love and marriage of Giovanni and Maria, Italian immigrants in France. After turbulent pasts, they meet in Quimper, fall in love, get married, and struggle with temptations.