German literature

Brižljiva opsada

The Careful Siege by Heinrich Böll is a political and social novel that depicts life under constant surveillance and the threat of terrorism. The work explores the conflict between security, freedom, and human dignity.

Buddenbrookovi: Propadanje jedne obitelji

Thomas Mann's first novel, published in 1901 when the author was only 26 years old. The work immediately brought the young writer worldwide fame and contributed significantly to his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.

Budenbrokovi

The Buddenbrooks is not just a family chronicle – it is a profound, melancholic fresco of how time and change inexorably creep into the core of a respectable bourgeois family, bringing with them a downfall that is both tragic and inevitable.

Čovječuljak

Čovjek došao u grad: Roman jednog proletariziranog seljaka

A poor peasant comes to the city seeking a better life, but faces exploitation and social injustice. The work depicts the process of proletarianization of the peasantry during the period of social change in the first half of the 20th century.

Crni Napoleon

The Black Napoleon (1931) is a fictional biography of Toussaint Louverture. It depicts the Haitian Revolution (1791–1803), the slave uprising in Saint-Domingue, Louverture's brilliant military and political rise, and his struggle against the colonial powe

Crni obelisk

The Black Obelisk depicts life in Germany after the First World War. Young Ludwig Bodmer tries to find the meaning of life in the midst of poverty, inflation, political unrest and disappointment.

Crni obelisk

Crvena ružica

A cult German "lady crime novel" and one of the biggest bestsellers of the 1990s in Germany, "The Red Rose" is the first book by Ingrid Noll, with which she became the founder of the "Hausfrauen-Thriller" genre.

Čudotvorni doktor s Mauritiusa

The Miracle Doctor from Mauritius is a novel by Richard Lewinsohn, published in 1966. The work explores humanity's fascination with eternal youth and the search for the elixir of life.