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 tea ceremony, arranging flowers, arranging gardens and the art of creating beautiful porcelain stand in the background of this novel as symbols of the eternal and timeless in human creativity.
An epic saga of ambition, power and corruption in the world of film and aviation in the 1920s and 1930s. The story follows Jonas Cord, a charismatic and ruthless heir to a fortune, who takes over his father's company, Cord Industries, after his father's d
Znanje, 1986.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
The Lying Life of Adults (2019), a stand-alone novel by Elena Ferrante, takes us to Naples in the 1990s through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Giovanna Trade, a bright, middle-class girl whose world falls apart with the discovery of her family's lies.
"Wolves" is a novel by Milutin Cihlar Nehajev that explores complex interpersonal relationships and moral dilemmas through the story of a wolf, a symbol of wilderness and freedom.
Boy, Lady, Jerk, Drot (2005), the final part of the trilogy that began with Tequila and Apaurin Concert (2002) and continued with Blue Bar Dancer (2004), is a satirical and melancholic story about the criminal milieu of contemporary Croatia.