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.
Matko Sršen is a writer and theater director from Dubrovnik. Every pore of his novel "Kingdom of Rokaška" breathes the spirit of the theater and the mythology of that city, which is omnipresent from the first to the last page.
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.