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.
Hearing in "Confessions of a Tourist", the author turned the material for conversations, conducted for the press over the years, into a fictitious hearing in which questions are asked about politics, adventures, literature, criticism...
The debut novel by this extremely popular Czech writer is a humorous story about growing up in communist Czechia, told from the perspective of a boy named Kvid. The first Croatian edition of the book.