The novel, written in verse, is about two brothers from the Irish island of Horse Island who head to Tibet to reach the top of the Flying Mountain.
The Chinese, the country of Kham, its inhabitants - nomads, are the setting for a story about a goal, persistence, longing, a search for an undiscovered, nameless mountain, perhaps the last "white spot" on the world map. It is also a novel about death and love.
Hearing in "Confessions of a Tourist", the author turned the material for conversations, conducted for the press over the years, into a fictitious hearing in which questions are asked about politics, adventures, literature, criticism...
A collection of reports, biographical notes, speeches and travelogues that, from 1985-1996, this prominent Austrian writer wrote for Austrian magazines.
The Old Man and the Sea is a novel by Ernest Hemingway, an American writer of the 20th century. Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel in 1953 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
Svjetlost, 1988.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
4.72 €
Novel • Historical novel • Polish literature
The novel Quo Vadis is a historical saga set in Rome during the reign of Emperor Nero. Written with epochal breadth, the work explores the conflict between early Christianity and decadent Roman society, with a love story at its center.