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The novel Beautiful Children depicts the world of adolescent rebels in a "re-education" colony - a prison disguised as a school. Written in the spirit of the Prague Spring, the work criticizes the communist system through a dynamic, cinematic narrative.
The Society of Jesus (1969) by Jiří Šotola, the debut work of the Czech poet, is a historical novel set during the Counter-Reformation, which subtly alludes to contemporary conditions in Czechoslovakia under communism.
In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison.
The novel is written as an autobiography since for Nezirović, writing is a healing job: it heals, heals wounds and eases the soul, but it is also a way to openly tell society everything that follows him.
The novel connects the 1940s and 1990s in time, takes place in Osijek's Lower Town, and the core of the novel is the story of the death of two innocent girls who were thrown alive into a mass grave.
In The House Where the Devil Dwells, Tribuson also thematizes the time of new poverty, crazy jokes on the way to earning money, usury, jealousy, revenge, strikes, and murders.