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.
What happens when the writer himself is the protagonist of his novel and writes it in the first person? The answer to this question can be obtained by reading the novel "Krasopis".
Znanje, 1987.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
Mende Nazer lives a happy childhood in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. Surrounded by the love of her family and friends, she dreams of one day being a doctor and caring for people.
The novel is dark, passionate, and full of Grey's epic descriptions of mountains and storms. It is considered one of his most tense and tragic works; it has been adapted for film four times (most famously in 1930 with Jack Holt and Fay Wray and in 1940 wi