Social literature

Tsotsi

Tsotsi

Athol Fugard

The novel Tsotsi is set in the slums of Johannesburg during apartheid and follows six days in the life of a young gangster known only as Tsotsi, which means "criminal" in Afrikaans.

Algoritam, 2007.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
6.36
Tuđa žena

Tuđa žena

Ivo Kozarčanin

The novel Another's Wife follows a young painter who returns to the province, where he experiences a love affair with another man's wife, but also disappointment, alienation, and conflict with his petty-bourgeois environment.

Društvo hrvatskih književnika, 1937.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
7.42
Tuđinac

Tuđinac

Yakub Kadri

The novel The Foreigner (Yaban, 1932) is a work by socially engaged writer Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoǧlu that speaks about the Turkish War of Independence and the instability of Turkish unity in 1918.

Nakladni zavod Ante Velzek, 1940.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
7.32
Ulica mačka ribara

Ulica mačka ribara

Jolán Földes

The novel tells about the difficult life of a working-class family of Hungarian emigrants in Paris after the First World War. In 1936, he won the All Nations Prize for a novel by Pinter Publishing Ltd (London). Rarely offered with cover.

Naklada Binoza, 1937.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
4.32 - 15.74
U registraturi

U registraturi

Ante Kovačić

The novel In the Registry is a key work by Ante Kovačić and the most important novel of Croatian realism. In this work, Kovačić addresses the problem of the transition from the peasant class to the gentry class.

Spektar, 1974.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
5.48 - 5.62
Veliko proljeće

Veliko proljeće

Stjepko Vrtar

The Great Spring (1933) depicts the awakening and rebirth of the Croatian village and the common man in the interwar period – a symbolic depiction of the national and social spring, the peasant movement, and the personal maturation of the main character.

Matica hrvatska, 1933.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
7.26
Vihor: igrokaz u četiri čina iz primorskog života

Vihor: igrokaz u četiri čina iz primorskog života

Ivo Turina Gavrov

"The Whirlwind: A Play in Four Acts from Coastal Life" by Ivo Turina Gavrov is a drama from coastal (Dalmatian) life with themes of family conflicts, tradition, love and social change.

Hrvatska tiskara, 1927.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
19.99
Vila Rubein: roman iz tirolskog života

Vila Rubein: roman iz tirolskog života

John Galsworthy

Villa Rubein (1900) is an early novel by John Galsworthy. It depicts the love between a young Englishwoman, Christian, and a poor Austrian painter in Tyrol, and the conflict between artistic ideals and civic conventions.

Zabavna biblioteka - Naklada tiskare Narodnih novina, 1933.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
6.72
Vjera za treći milenij

Vjera za treći milenij

Colleen McCullough

Faith for the Third Millennium is a futuristic novel by Colleen McCullough that examines the relationship between faith, science, and politics. In a world gripped by crisis, a charismatic healer appears whose message inspires hope but also provokes power

Znanje, 1987.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
3.86 - 4.32
Vojske

Vojske

Evelio Rosero

A poignant novel about Ismael and his wife Otilia in the Colombian village of San José, which is slowly being destroyed by various armies – guerrillas, paramilitaries, the army and drug gangs. A powerful portrayal of the senselessness of civil war and the

Hena Com, 2021.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
8.44