The last commander of the 68th Battalion, a Vukovar defender, Drago Maksimović, is also the author of the book "Breviary of Hopelessness", which talks about the problems of the defenders after the Homeland War.
This is Maksimović's second book. The first was a collection of war stories. The fourteen stories, seemingly unrelated, bear a strong imprint of the author's personality. In several of them, those privileged, through the veil of hazy Danube dawns, can glimpse elements of autobiographical expression.
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The novel is set in a Cossack community on the Don River during collectivization in the Soviet Union. The work, divided into two parts, follows the dramatic changes in the village of Gremyachi Log as the Bolsheviks introduce collective farms, which provok
It's the 39th in Brooklyn, the Jewish neighborhood of New York. Sharing their last cigarette at the window, two cousins, Sammy Clayman and Joseph Kavalier, will share their dreams, fears, and hopes.
The picture of Katie and David Carr's marriage, sketched with Nick Hornby's mercilessly witty strokes, is more like a still life peeking out from a toadstool.
What would have happened if, on the eve of World War II, a proposal to create a temporary refuge for the Jewish people on the west coast of Alaska had been accepted?