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.
This popular reading edition brings a carefully abridged and adapted version of Cervantes' masterpiece - the first modern novel in world literature - translated by Iso Velikanović, one of the most beautiful and most widely read Croatian translations of Do
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 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
A 1979 novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. The postmodernist narrative, in the form of a frame story, tells the story of a reader trying to read the book If One Winter's Night a Traveler. Each chapter is divided into two parts.
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.
9.547.15 €
Croatian literature • Novele • Psychological novel
A short novel by Edo Popović, one of the most important Croatian prose writers of the 1990s and 2000s. The book is part of Popović's "Zagreb Cycle" – a critique of transition without pathos, but through absurdity and grotesqueness.