On Writers and Writing 2012 Desk Diary

Odsustvo do buđenja

Battle Cry (1953) is Leon Uris's debut novel based on his experience in World War II as a member of the 6th Marine Regiment.

U Americi

Susan Sontag's latest novel, inspired by the real-life Polish woman Helena Modjeska. Sontag, through an ironic, erudite style, explores emigration as an existential escape: America is not a paradise, but a mirror of European weaknesses.

Obećaješ li da nećeš nikome reći?

The novel Will You Promise Not to Tell? (2000), the second part of the series about KEY News journalists, is a tense crime thriller set in the world of high-stakes auctions and hidden secrets of New York.

Da Vincijev kod

Očekivani životni vijek

Anyone who has read Dean Koontz's novels knows that his novels are hard to put down, and this one about the life of an innocent family who cannot escape the fate foretold to them by their ancestor long ago is no exception.

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The novel represents a journey into an alternative world – a world that we all belong to from time to time, but of which we would not want to be a part, a world of paranoia and alienation that we are not entirely sure is just an alternative or the bare tr