The novel, written in verse, is about two brothers from the Irish island of Horse Island who head to Tibet to reach the top of the Flying Mountain.
The Chinese, the country of Kham, its inhabitants - nomads, are the setting for a story about a goal, persistence, longing, a search for an undiscovered, nameless mountain, perhaps the last "white spot" on the world map. It is also a novel about death and love.
Hearing in "Confessions of a Tourist", the author turned the material for conversations, conducted for the press over the years, into a fictitious hearing in which questions are asked about politics, adventures, literature, criticism...
The Peace of Oranienburg is the name for years and decades of war. But that name does not mark the period of restoration, but of reprisals and revenge.
In the whirlwind of post-war Europe, where the ruins of the past mingle with the turmoil of a new beginning, Hans Habe's novel Gentlemen of the Jurors (1955) takes us through a tense story about justice, morality, and human weaknesses.
Naprijed, 1966.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.