Social literature

Rimske priče: izbor

Rimske priče: izbor

Alberto Moravia

Collections of short stories from Roman life in the post-war era: ordinary people from the people and the petty bourgeoisie – the poor, workers, small craftsmen – face misery, survival, jealousy, petty deceit and moral compromises in everyday life.

Otokar Keršovani, 1966.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
3.98
Robijaši, kolonisti i kanaci

Robijaši, kolonisti i kanaci

Georges Ferre

Convicts, Colonists and Kanaks is a powerful story about life in a French penal colony, which explores justice, freedom and colonial exploitation through the fates of convicts, colonists and Kanaks, while criticizing the dehumanizing system.

Naklada Binoza, 1933.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
7.52
Robinja

Robinja

Mende Nazer, Damien Lewis

Mende Nazer, a girl from the Nuba tribe, was kidnapped at the age of 12 in a raid, sold into slavery in Khartoum, suffered for 7 years, escaped from London in 2000. A moving story of modern slavery.

Znanje, 2004.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
12.329.24
Sabrana dela 10: Mati

Sabrana dela 10: Mati

Pearl S. Buck

A poor Chinese peasant woman, abandoned by her husband, raises three children alone, struggling with hunger, poverty and social pressures. A moving story of maternal strength and sacrifice.

Rad, 1971.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
3.99 - 4.86
Sabrana dela 12: Paviljon žena

Sabrana dela 12: Paviljon žena

Pearl S. Buck

The novel The Pavilion of Women (1946) is one of Pearl S. Buck's most intimate and subtle stories. It is set among the old, wealthy Chinese Wu family, in the years immediately before the Japanese invasion.

Rad, 1978.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
4.96 - 5.34
Sabrana dela 13: Ponosito srce

Sabrana dela 13: Ponosito srce

Pearl S. Buck

One of Pearl S. Buck's less frequently mentioned but very powerful novels (1938), which is quite different from her Chinese sagas. It is the story of a gifted, proud woman who struggles to remain both an artist and a woman, in a world that finds it diffic

Matica srpska, 1980.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
3.00
Sabrana dela 15: Sinovi

Sabrana dela 15: Sinovi

Pearl S. Buck

After their father's death, the three sons of peasant Wang Lung leave the land he loved; war, greed, and revolution tear the family apart and destroy the inheritance.

Rad, 1971.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
3.62 - 3.99
Sabrana dela 16: Skriveni cvet

Sabrana dela 16: Skriveni cvet

Pearl S. Buck

The novel is an intimate, emotional story of forbidden love in post-war Japan. One of Buck's most personal works on the subject of interracial relationships. Less epic, more psychological and melancholic than her Chinese novels.

Rad, 1978.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
5.62
Sabrana dela 2: Dobra zemlja

Sabrana dela 2: Dobra zemlja

Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck depicts the life of Chinese peasant Wang Lung, his rise from poverty to wealth, and the disintegration of family ties. The novel explores the relationship between man and land, tradition, social change, and moral challenges.

Rad, 1971.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
5.22 - 5.26
Sabrana dela 3: Drugi bogovi

Sabrana dela 3: Drugi bogovi

Pearl S. Buck

The novel Other Gods is a satirical and psychological story about the American cult of celebrity, idolatry, and the need of the masses to create "gods" out of ordinary people.

Matica srpska, 1980.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
5.74