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.
Dead Souls (1842) is a brilliant satire that exposes the moral and social rot of imperial Russia through Chichikov's fraud with dead serfs, with Gogol's virtuoso mix of humor, irony and lyricism.
After Children from the ZOO Station, the most honest and convincing first-hand account of addiction. Without moralizing, without justifying, the author describes the milieu of a drug addict. Hopefully he's still out of hell...
Sipar, 2005.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
7.64 - 8.36 €
Novel • American literature • Social literature
Jimmie Higgins (1919) is a novel that follows the life of humble laborer Jimmie Higgins, a symbol of the working class in America. Set against the backdrop of World War I, the novel explores themes of class struggle, political activism, and personal sacri