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.
Spark of Life follows a group of inmates in a Nazi concentration camp who, despite the constant terror, retain their moral strength and humanity. The novel depicts the struggle of the spirit against systematic destruction and the need for hope.
The Devil (1920) is a psychological novel about a "devil" - a rebellious, erotic and complex daughter from a well-off bourgeois family. A contribution to upper-class psychology, with an emphasis on the sexual and social awakening of a young woman.
Nakladni zavod Josip Čaklović, 1920.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
6.24 €
German literature • Psychological novel • Social literature
An Egyptian boy from poverty dreams of becoming a doctor ("hakim" in Arabic means doctor/sage). With immense perseverance, he rises to world fame, but must choose between ambition and his roots.
Nakladni zavod Ante Velzek, 1942.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
The book consists of two volumes
15.26 €
Romance Novels • German literature • Historical novel • Autobiographies and Memoirs
A historical novel about the great love of Croatian poet Petar Preradović and his first wife Pavica (Pava) from a Dalmatian noble family. A touching story of love, marriage, war and tragic fate in the turbulent 19th century.
Nakladni zavod Ante Velzek, 1940.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
The Black Napoleon (1931) is a fictional biography of Toussaint Louverture. It depicts the Haitian Revolution (1791–1803), the slave uprising in Saint-Domingue, Louverture's brilliant military and political rise, and his struggle against the colonial powe
Nakladni zavod Ante Velzek, 1940.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.