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.
Deze Kostolanyi is an exceptional Hungarian artist, originally from Subotica, who has achieved success in many literary genres, from poetry to essays to theater plays.
Winter in the south perfectly evokes the atmosphere of fear and war, desperate people in hopeless situations. Gstrein creates incredibly accurate and poignant portraits of people facing their fears and longings.
Fraktura, 2012.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
The novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetfulness (1979), a fragmentary novel in seven parts, explores Czech history under the communist regime, particularly after the 1968 Prague Spring and the Soviet invasion.
While playing in a forest clearing near his home somewhere in Vermont, a boy named Arnie Rogers comes across the body of an unknown man and rushes to inform his young mother Jennifer.