Social literature

Konačna dijagnoza

Konačna dijagnoza

Arthur Hailey

Arthur Hailey's Final Diagnosis is a medical novel set in a large hospital. Through the fates of doctors and patients, it depicts responsibility, professional errors, and the conflict between tradition and progress in medicine.

Znanje, 1972.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
4.42
Konformist

Konformist

Alberto Moravia

Marcello Clerici, obsessed with normality after a traumatic childhood and a homosexual attack, becomes a fascist bureaucrat. He marries the average Giulia, and on their "honeymoon" in Paris, he is assigned to kill a former professor, anti-fascist Quadri.

Otokar Keršovani, 1966.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
4.96
Kotači

Kotači

Arthur Hailey

A novel that immerses you in the world of the American automobile industry, set in Detroit in the 1960s. The story follows the complex relationships between managers, workers and unions at the fictitious National Motors company as they prepare to launch a

Mladost, 1986.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
4.62
Kraj mandata

Kraj mandata

Pavao Pavličić

The End of the Mandate by Pavle Pavličić is a crime novel in which the seemingly routine end of a local official's term turns into an investigation filled with political conflicts, secrets, and crime.

Znanje, 1984.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
3.56 - 4.38
Kraljev gambit

Kraljev gambit

Branka Slijepčević

The King's Gambit by Branka Slijepčević is a novel about a generation born after World War II that faces unfulfilled ambitions, disillusionment, disappointments in love, and the transience of life.

Znanje, 1988.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
4.22
Kronika kulta ličnosti

Kronika kulta ličnosti

Jevgenija Ginzburg

Chronicle of the Cult of Personality by Yevgenia Ginzburg is a memoir about the Stalinist purges. The author describes her own arrest, imprisonment, and years spent in camps, testifying to the repression of the Soviet regime.

Znanje, 1971.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
6.48
Kronika o siromašnim ljubavnicima

Kronika o siromašnim ljubavnicima

Vasco Pratolini

In Florence 1925–1926, in the poor Via del Corno, the residents live in love, poverty and fear. The arrival of fascism destroys the community: lovers fight, some die from violence, but popular solidarity survives.

Sveučilišna naklada Liber (SNL), 1982.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
3.76
Krvava arena

Krvava arena

Vicente Blasco Ibanez

The Bloody Arena (1908) is a naturalistic novel about the rise and fall of bullfighter Juan Gallardo. A poor young man becomes a famous matador, but is destroyed by love, vice, fear, and tragedies in the arena – a critique of Spanish bullfighting and soci

Naprijed, 1984.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
4.76
Krvava arena: roman iz života španjolskih torera

Krvava arena: roman iz života španjolskih torera

Vicente Blasco Ibanez

The Bloody Arena (1908) is a naturalistic novel about the rise and fall of bullfighter Juan Gallardo. A poor young man becomes a famous matador, but is destroyed by love, vice, fear, and tragedies in the arena – a critique of Spanish bullfighting and soci

Zabavna biblioteka - Naklada tiskare Narodnih novina, 1928.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
7.99
Kukavica

Kukavica

Kenjiro Tokutomi

The Coward (1898/1899) is a Japanese melodrama about the unhappy love of the young Nami-ko and her husband Takeo. One of the most famous works of Japanese literature of the Meiji period, it was a huge international hit at one time.

Hrvatska književna naklada neovisnih književnika, 1939.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
7.36