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.
At the heart of this fascinating multi-layered adventure novel is an authentic account of the fate of the Austro-Hungarian expedition to the North Pole in 1873.
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...
Eva Luna is a novel about a poor storyteller who weaves lives with words, written by Isabel Allende, the founder of Latin American magical realism. Published after the success of The House of the Spirits, this whirlwind of adventure combines love, revolut
Znanje, 1990.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
At the end of the eighties, Damir Uzunović traveled to Paris and stayed there for less than a year. He was twenty years old at the time, and that exile episode would be formative for the literature he would later write.
These stories deal with different topics, although most deal with different criminal acts, from fraud and fortune-telling to marriage fraud and murder.
The novel One Hundred Years by Dario Harjaček provides a panoramic view of Trešnjevka and its inhabitants through a century of changes, ideologies, and human destinies – a mosaic of Zagreb in which life, art, and history intertwine.