Scandals of an Innocent

Granta 55: Children: Blind Bitter Happiness

The thematic issue of Granta on Childhood brings essays, stories and photographs that depict parenthood, growing up, family traumas, memories and the way childhood shapes adult life.

Kalista

Callista (1855) is a historical novel, set in 3rd century North Africa, that follows the young Greek woman Callista, a talented sculptor of pagan statues, who confronts the truth of Christianity during the persecution of Christians under Emperor Decius.

Giocondin posmijeh i druge pripovijesti

The Laughing of Gioconda and Other Stories (1921) is a collection of short stories by Aldous Huxley. It humorously and cynically depicts marital intrigue, the boredom of bourgeois life, human vanity, and the moral decline of modern society.

Vila Rubein: roman iz tirolskog života

Villa Rubein (1900) is an early novel by John Galsworthy. It depicts the love between a young Englishwoman, Christian, and a poor Austrian painter in Tyrol, and the conflict between artistic ideals and civic conventions.

A Prisoner of Birth

Labirint čempresa

A romantic historical novel set in Tuscany between the 1940s and 1970s. A young woman inherits a villa with a mysterious cypress garden and uncovers family secrets from World War II. Love, betrayal and Italian beauty.