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The debut novel by this extremely popular Czech writer is a humorous story about growing up in communist Czechia, told from the perspective of a boy named Kvid. The first Croatian edition of the book.
The book contains about twenty stories connected into one whole by the main character (the writer Oskar). It is, therefore, a kind of novel that, through intimate confessions, actually talks about the loneliness of the modern intellectual.
The novel itself is conceptually carried by a lucid comparison of Dalmatia and the Wild West: on a thematic level, cowboys are the mythical place of the childhood of the main character and her brother.
The Buddenbrooks is not just a family chronicle – it is a profound, melancholic fresco of how time and change inexorably creep into the core of a respectable bourgeois family, bringing with them a downfall that is both tragic and inevitable.
The saga of Dejan Šork's film "American-Croatian in Color" in its second part, "Venice of Death," follows the life of director Desdemona Marin, the fourth generation of a Croatian immigrant family connected by fate to film.
This short novel deserves to be called a classic. Its heroine, Holly Golightly, an eccentric young woman with a whimsical and unconventional demeanor, simply gets under the skin of the people around her and the readers of this novel.