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.
Sipar, 2019.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
7.92 - 7.94 €
British literature • Historical novel • A war novel • Novel
The Quiet American (1955) is set in Vietnam in the 1950s, during the French colonial struggle against the insurgents. Through the atmosphere of Saigon, Greene creates a tense story of love and political intrigue, with a strong critique of the Vietnam War
Jutarnji list, 2004.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
2.42 - 4.99 €
Humor and Satire • Novel • Russian literature
Dead Souls (1842) is a brilliant satire that exposes the moral and social rot of imperial Russia through Chichikov's fraud with dead serfs, with Gogol's virtuoso mix of humor, irony and lyricism.
The hero of our time is a novel by the Russian writer Mihail J. Ljermontov, published in 1840. It is considered one of the first psychological novels in Russian literature and an important work of Russian romanticism with elements of realism.
Jutarnji list, 2008.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
2.26 - 3.24 €
Romance Novels • German literature • Novel
Therese the Wise (1748) is an erotic novel by an anonymous author (probably the Marquis d'Argens), mixing the philosophy of the Lumières with explicit scenes. With an introduction by Michel Camus and a foreword by Philippe Roger.
Logos, 1988.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.