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 inn builder is a realistic historical novel, in the tradition of Andrić, but with elements of fantasy that connect Aralica with the oral Croatian literary word, but also with the fantastic literature of Gabriel García Marques, for example.
Znanje, 1987.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
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.