Social literature

Veliko proljeće

Veliko proljeće

Stjepko Vrtar

The Great Spring (1933) depicts the awakening and rebirth of the Croatian village and the common man in the interwar period – a symbolic depiction of the national and social spring, the peasant movement, and the personal maturation of the main character.

Matica hrvatska, 1933.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
7.26 €
Vihor: igrokaz u četiri čina iz primorskog života

Vihor: igrokaz u četiri čina iz primorskog života

Ivo Turina Gavrov

"The Whirlwind: A Play in Four Acts from Coastal Life" by Ivo Turina Gavrov is a drama from coastal (Dalmatian) life with themes of family conflicts, tradition, love and social change.

Hrvatska tiskara, 1927.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
19.99 €
Vila Rubein: roman iz tirolskog života

Vila Rubein: roman iz tirolskog života

John Galsworthy

Villa Rubein (1900) is an early novel by John Galsworthy. It depicts the love between a young Englishwoman, Christian, and a poor Austrian painter in Tyrol, and the conflict between artistic ideals and civic conventions.

Zabavna biblioteka - Naklada tiskare Narodnih novina, 1933.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
6.72 €
Vjera za treći milenij

Vjera za treći milenij

Colleen McCullough

Vjera za treći milenij futuristički je roman Colleen McCullough koji propituje odnos vjere, znanosti i politike. U svijetu zahvaćenom krizom pojavljuje se karizmatični iscjelitelj čija poruka budi nadu, ali i izaziva sukobe moći.

Znanje, 1987.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
4.32 €
Vojske

Vojske

Evelio Rosero

A poignant novel about Ismael and his wife Otilia in the Colombian village of San José, which is slowly being destroyed by various armies – guerrillas, paramilitaries, the army and drug gangs. A powerful portrayal of the senselessness of civil war and the

Hena Com, 2021.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
8.44 €
Voljeni pokojnik: angloamerička tragedija

Voljeni pokojnik: angloamerička tragedija

Evelyn Waugh

The Beloved Deceased is Evelyn Waugh's satirical novel about a British expat in Hollywood who finds himself in the middle of the absurd American funeral business. A love triangle ends with an unexpected tragedy.

Znanje, 1982.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
5.12 - 5.14 €
Vrijeme nasilja

Vrijeme nasilja

Jean-Pierre Simon

A Time of Violence (1966) is an anti-war and activist novel by French writer Jean-Pierre Simon, a lesser-known author from the mid-20th century, whose work bears traces of leftist literature of the 1930s and 1940s.

Svjetlost, 1965.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
2.46 €
Vrt od stakla

Vrt od stakla

Tatiana Țîbuleac

A moving novel about a little girl, Lastočka, who is adopted from an orphanage by a Russian woman, Tamara, in Chisinau in the 1980s. A moving story about childhood, language, identity, and trauma in the final years of Soviet Moldova.

V.B.Z, 2021.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
9.32 €
Washington Square

Washington Square

Henry James

Caught between her father’s distrust and a charming suitor’s attentions, wealthy Catherine Sloper must discover whom to trust and claim the right to choose her own future.

Zora, 1953.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
7.46 €
Wer ohne Sünde ist...

Wer ohne Sünde ist...

Susanne Seitz

Who is without sin... is Susanne Seitz's debut novel about the young Lisa Wegner who flees from a provincial estate to Munich at the beginning of the 20th century in search of an artistic and free life.

Deutscher Bücherbund, 1987.
German. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
7.32 €