Croatian literature

Otac kamenoga srca

The novel follows Ivona, a young girl who grows up without parental warmth following her mother's death. Confronted with her father's mistakes and painful family secrets, she finds the strength to grow up, love, and forgive.

Otimanje

Otmica kapetana Sindbada

Dobroslav Jurjevski’s detective and adventure novel follows the kidnapping of a Croatian engineer in New York and a detective’s battle against the mafia and intrigues within the émigré community.

Otočne priče

Island stories are inspired by some real-life situations and people from our islands, with the intention of leaving a small "trace in infinity". The rest is fictional.

Otrovana srca / Pobijeljeni grobovi

One of the most prolific Croatian realists and early naturalists with a strong right-wing orientation, in this book he brings together two stories from the Zagreb bourgeois milieu: Poisoned Hearts (1890) and Whitened Graves (1896).

Otrovano proljeće

The first solo collection of poems by Vladimir Kovačić. Intimate and melancholic lyrics in which youthful enthusiasm, love and spring intertwine with feelings of bitterness, disappointment and poisoned youth in a difficult social and personal context.

Pan

Miroslav Krleža

"Pan" by Miroslav Krleža is the author's first book, a mythical-pantheistic poem published in 1917. Through a lush rhythm and sensual images, it conveys an ecstatic experience of nature and life. Fifth edition, first post-war.

Pasja kola

Nataša Govedić's new book of poetry owes its title, as well as its spine – upright and directly opposed to the associated symbolic field – to the ethics and aesthetics of cursing. However, her settings are more complex than those of the domestic progenito

Patnici: drama u 3 čina / Krštenje u dobroj volji: komedija u 1 činu

Two plays by Josip Selak (J. S. Savinski) – a serious portrayal of suffering in three acts and a humorous one-act play about good intentions and intrigue. Works by a lesser-known Croatian playwright and businessman from the early 20th century.

Patuljci žive u kuglama

Books like this one warn us that the classic fairy tale models are still not completely exhausted and that they can serve as a starting point for modern stories that will find their readers among the children of the virtual generation.