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.
This is a book that teaches us how to marvel at the world again, a book that someone, in a bus or a room, will look at and think about, perhaps in some way, to add to it.
Murakami's famous novel, a nostalgic tale of youth, love and loss, set in 1960s Tokyo, amidst student protests against the Vietnam War. The title comes from a Beatles song, a symbol of lost innocence.
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.
The novel tells about the social rise of a poor young man, Julien Sorel, in a conservative, counter-revolutionary and authoritarian regime in the era of the re-establishment of the monarchy after the fall of Napoleon and the return of the Bourbon dynasty
Sveučilišna naklada Liber (SNL), 1977.
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.