The German magazine Der Spiegel titled Mr. Kuka's recommendations as "the trickiest book of the season" just after publication.
Waldemar, an aspiring and inexperienced young man from Warsaw, firmly decided to travel to the West for the first time in his life. That trip to Vienna turned into a swedish of European proportions, with pointed and somewhat venomous complaints against the golden West.
The thief of the peaks is a book with a dose of the finest philosophical-Lacrdian humor that can be read as a guide to solving small and large life puzzles.
The Kaiser's Coolies (1930) is an anti-militarist novel by Theodor Plievier. Based on his own experience, it depicts the brutal life of ordinary sailors in the German navy during World War I and the sailors' mutiny of 1917.
Naklada Binoza, 1934.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
5.26 €
German literature • Historical novel • Psychological novel
A novel from the era of the Kulturkampf in Germany, which depicts the suffering and resistance of a Catholic chaplain in conflict with the Bismarckian persecution of the Church, religious struggle and fidelity to ideals.
Hrvatsko književno društvo Sv. Jeronima, 1928.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
11.36 €
Romance Novels • German literature • A war novel • Social literature
Germany after World War I. Three inseparable war comrades struggle to survive amid poverty and inflation. In the chaos, one of them finds great love – but time is against them.
"Silence in the Forest" by Ludwig Ganghofer is a popular romance novel set in the Tyrolean mountains and forests – a story of love, passion, jealousy and aristocratic life. Classic Ganghofer's native prose.