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 young diplomat returns from Barcelona devastated by the separation from his beloved woman. However, he soon meets a new love. But when he is about to crown this relationship with marriage, his former girlfriend returns.
Zora, 1955.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
It is a lyrically intoned work that combines elements of a romance novel, psychological drama, and social criticism, set in the contemporary urban milieu of Zagreb in the 1970s and early 1980s.
August Cesarec, 1983.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.