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.
The novel, whose original title is L'Homme de plâtre, explores complex human destinies through the story of a protagonist whose life symbolically reflects fragility and vulnerability, like plaster.
On a lonely island, which can be reached by the Titanic ferry that runs only once a month, and can only be accessed by invitation and knowing the password, there is the most attractive hotel - Hotel Horizont.
Fraktura, 2023.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.