Literature

Vježbanje života

Practicing Life is a historical novel that explores the complex Croatian-Italian relations in Rijeka through the prism of two families – an Italian and a Croatian. Called a "chronisteria", the novel combines chronicle and hysteria, reflecting the turbulen

Vježbanje života

Vježbe disanja

Anne Tyler is a Pulitzer Prize winner for her novel Breathing Exercises.

Vladimir / Dusi narodne straže

August Šenoa

The book 17 Collected Works of August Šenoa combines two thematically different narratives: a romantic love story in Vladimir and an autobiographical, nostalgic portrayal of childhood and revolutionary fervor in 1848 in The Spirits of the National Guard.

Vladimir / Zvonar Tobdžija

August Šenoa

Vlak je bio točan

The first novel by Heinrich Böll. This work (1949) laid the foundation for Böll's later career, in which he continued to explore themes of moral responsibility and the consequences of war, which earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.

Vlasnik

The Owner (1906) is the first part of the Forsyte Saga. The novel satirically and critically portrays Soames Forsyte in particular - a property owner and his wife Irene - whose possessiveness and materialism destroy human relationships and lead to family

Voće tela

"Fruits of the Body" (1983) is a novel by Milan Ranković that explores physicality as a source of pleasure, suffering and social interaction in the context of Yugoslav socialism. The novel remains an under-read gem of Yugoslav prose in the 1980s.

Voda ime

"Me and the water are part of one big water. She is my name, and the water always runs out before my name..."

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