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.
Fashion photographer Laura is gaining fame by shooting her exclusive models, full of erotic charge, on the streets of the metropolis, where violence and crime reign.
Grafički zavod Hrvatske (GZH), 1979.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
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