In the novel Rakovac u Vinovrh, the character of an idealistically committed young man who fights against the economic and national oppression of Croatia appears.
A Time of Violence (1966) is an anti-war and activist novel by French writer Jean-Pierre Simon, a lesser-known author from the mid-20th century, whose work bears traces of leftist literature of the 1930s and 1940s.
Svjetlost, 1965.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
2.46 €
Romance Novels • Social literature • Italian literature
In Florence 1925–1926, in the poor Via del Corno, the residents live in love, poverty and fear. The arrival of fascism destroys the community: lovers fight, some die from violence, but popular solidarity survives.
Sveučilišna naklada Liber (SNL), 1982.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
3.76 €
Romance Novels • Social literature • Spanish literature
The Bloody Arena (1908) is a naturalistic novel about the rise and fall of bullfighter Juan Gallardo. A poor young man becomes a famous matador, but is destroyed by love, vice, fear, and tragedies in the arena – a critique of Spanish bullfighting and soci
Naprijed, 1984.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
The novel tells about the difficult life of a working-class family of Hungarian emigrants in Paris after the First World War. In 1936, he won the All Nations Prize for a novel by Pinter Publishing Ltd (London). Rarely offered with cover.
Naklada Binoza, 1937.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.