Princess Daisy is a novel about the fate of Marguerite Valensky, daughter of Russian Prince Stash Valensky and American film star Francesca Vernon. The novel manages to reconcile the spirit of former Europe and its nobles with modern values.
Susan Sontag's latest novel, inspired by the real-life Polish woman Helena Modjeska. Sontag, through an ironic, erudite style, explores emigration as an existential escape: America is not a paradise, but a mirror of European weaknesses.
Naklada EOS, 2005.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
13.98 €
American literature • Historical novel • A war novel
The novel High Window, the third in the series about private detective Philip Marlowe, takes place in sunny but corrupt Los Angeles. Marlowe, a cynic at heart, navigates through the glitz of Hollywood, where high windows hide falls into the abyss.
Spektar, 1984.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
An experimental, fragmentary, and autobiographical debut novel by a Lebanese-American writer and painter. Unconventional, emotionally brutal, and intellectually sharp, "Koolaids" paints a powerful portrait of loss and the search for meaning in the midst o
Buybook, 2011.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
12.42 €
Literature for children • American literature • Teen Novels • Psychological novel • First editions
"Dad, You're Crazy", a novel by William Saroyan published in 1957, and in Croatia in 1958 in the Vjeverica library, is a moving and autobiographical story told from the perspective of a ten-year-old boy, Jamie, inspired by Saroyan's son Aram.