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.
A generational novel set in the late 1990s, in provincial Croatia. The main character, a thirty-five-year-old journalist in a deep professional and existential crisis, returns from Zagreb to his hometown after years of working in sensationalist media.
Profil Knjiga, 2006.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
9.54 €
Humor and Satire • Poems in prose • Novel • Russian literature
Venedikt Yerofeyev's postmodern prose poem is today considered a classic of new Russian literature. It is compared to Gogol and Kharms for its poetics of absurdity, satire, and metaphysical depth.
Ignored and harassed by the authorities, surviving on the help of relatives and publishing children's rhymes, this ingenious marginal left behind a veritable treasure trove of strange stories and twisted thoughts in his notes and notebooks.
Šareni dućan, 1999.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
10.14 €
A philosophical novel • Novel • Social literature • Czech literature
Jaromil, a young poet raised by a possessive mother, seeks a "real life" in poetry and revolution. His lyrical youth, love, and idealism lead him into conformity and betrayal of intimate relationships – he dies young and unfulfilled.
Znanje, 1979.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
There is no doubt that it is most attractive to read The Call to Execution as it appears to be written, as an anti-utopian or anti-totalitarian novel...
Nolit, 1988.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
The novel represents a journey into an alternative world – a world that we all belong to from time to time, but of which we would not want to be a part, a world of paranoia and alienation that we are not entirely sure is just an alternative or the bare tr