The novel "The Zrinjski-Frankopan Conspiracy" (1893) was the most widely read Croatian book for ten years, and, thanks to the interest of readers at the time in historical events, it had a huge influence on younger generations of readers.
The novel follows Boris Kostomarov, an engineer in Soviet Russia, who, through conflicts with bureaucracy, moral questioning, and the fates of people in remote forests, reveals the complexity of Soviet society and the price of personal conscience.
Prosveta, 1960.
Serbian. Cyrillic alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
The book "Fox" by David Herbert Lawrence is a short novel (novella) that explores power relations, suppressed desires and the conflict between freedom and domination.