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.
Portraying a family from Rijeka that has a hard time coping with Croatian reality, and not forgiving any of its members' flaws or weaknesses, Vedrana Rudan told a disturbing story.
Das Buch enthält etwa zwanzig Geschichten, die durch die Hauptfigur (den Schriftsteller Oskar) zu einem Ganzen verbunden sind. Es handelt sich also um eine Art Roman, der durch intime Geständnisse tatsächlich von der Einsamkeit des modernen Intellektuelle