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.
A representative selection from the lyrics of Goethe, one of the greatest European poets, encompassing key phases of his work – from Sturm und Drang, through the classical Weimar period to his late poems.
A young and beautiful girl and a handsome, rich young man. Love is born on both sides at first sight. But look at the devil! Everything around the girl is shrouded in some secret.
Nakladni zavod Matice hrvatske, 1987.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
5.76 €
Anthology • Short stories • German literature
The book presents a selection of short stories by about 15 Austrian authors, trying to show the development of Austrian short prose - from realism and naturalism through modernity and expressionism to post-war and postmodernist literature.
Naklada MD, 2003.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
12.38 €
Adventure novel • Bulgarian literature • German literature • Historical novel
A romanticized biography of British adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton. Three great journeys (India, the Hajj to Mecca, Africa, and the search for the source of the Nile) told from the perspectives of his Indian, Arab, and African companions/guides.
The novel On the Rio de la Plata is the first part of a two-part adventure story by Karl May, continued in In the Cordilleras. The action takes place in South America, in Uruguay and Argentina, during the revolutionary turmoil of the 19th century.