The novel "Rebecca" (1938), a Gothic classic, follows a nameless young woman, the poor companion of a rich American woman, who falls in love with the charming widower Maxim de Winter, owner of the luxurious Manderley estate in Cornwall, in Monte Carlo.
Why do we destroy what we love most? That's the question with which Paulo Coelho confronts his own past in "The Valkyries" in order to turn to the future.
The story is told through the eyes of narrator Kenneth Trachtenberg, a 35-year-old assistant professor of Russian literature, born in Paris, but now living in the Midwest of the USA.
Veselin Masleša, 1990.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.