The Jewel in the Crown is a 1966 novel by Paul Scott that begins his Paradise Quartet. The Quartet novel sequence in four volumes is set in the last days of British rule in India during World War II.
The disturbing and emotionally exhausting story tells about a painter who, with her artistic passion, opposed the expectations imposed on her by her parents.
Naklada Ljevak, 2021.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
The essays collected in this book reveal the origins and meanders of Sanja Lovrenčić's years-long search for the authentic character of Ivana Brlić Mažuranić.
Perhaps the greatest virtue of Velikić's writing, which culminated in this novel, is his extraordinarily refined feeling for life's details, which he depicts and evokes with an almost shamanic power of materialization.
Profil International, 2008.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
6.98 €
Croatian literature • Romance Novels • Psychological novel
"Don't Look for Me Within You" is a classic romance novel ("ljubić") in the spirit of popular trivial literature in 1980s Yugoslavia. An interesting example of the popular culture of socialism and the construction of female identity in trivial literature.
It is a deeply disturbing text, full of emotions and traumatic experiences of a collapsed, imploded urban individual crying out for the meaning of life.