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English teacher Alfie Budd in Hong Kong found the perfect woman, married her, and decided to spend the rest of his life with her. Then he lost her and continued to live in the belief that life doesn't give you two chances for that kind of love.
The novel depicts the tragic fate of Mariuta (Marije Zef) and her younger sister Rosuta. The work shocked contemporaries with its boldness in depicting taboo subjects, and is today considered a classic portrait of female suffering in rural Italy.
A Serbian writer known for his satirical novels, Andrić's Ladder of Horrors dissects the Balkan mentality through a parable of Yugo-nostalgia and national myths. The title alludes to Ivo Andrić as a litmus test for criticism – Balkans claim him or reject
The novel and the preparation for the novel, a mixture of fiction, documents, tracts and essays, examines the Sarajevo assassination of 1914 without ideological burden. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand was a consequence of the Viennese modernization m
The debut work of Croatian writer Tomislav Šovagović, awarded the Josip and Ivan Kozarac Award in 2012, is a dedication to Slavonia – the region of his childhood that the author, born in Dalmatia, observes with foreign but tender eyes.
A novel and study in one, Jergović's portrait of the lost era of Sarajevo from June 1914 to the autumn of 1919, transforming the city into a metaphor for the beauty and horror of the 20th century, full of wars and trauma.