Social literature

Garman & Worse

Alexander Kielland's Garman & Worse is a social novel about a wealthy merchant family in a Norwegian port city. Through their fates, the author criticizes the hypocrisy, class differences, and moral dilemmas of bourgeois society.

Germinal

A novel that represents the pinnacle of literary creation by one of the most significant representatives of naturalism in literature.

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Giga Barićeva (1940) follows the life of Zagreb's bourgeois society during and after World War I. Begović's style, imbued with impressionism and wit, creates a panorama of society, while Giga personifies the struggle between freedom and expectations.

Godan

Gola maja

The famous painter Mariano Renovales, the son of a blacksmith, rises to fame in Rome, Paris and Madrid. Obsessed with his love for women and art, he paints his "Naked Maya", which leads to drama, jealousy and conflict.

Golubovi i jastrebovi

In a typically Sardinian setting, through a dramatic love story, Deledda depicts the conflict between two families and their worlds – the peaceful, honest "doves" and the aggressive, greedy "hawks".

Gonič zmajeva

A poignant story of friendship, betrayal and redemption in Afghanistan. Amir and Hassan grow up together until war and Taliban terror destroy their world. A classic of contemporary world literature.

Gospoda Golovljovi

A rare and sought-after first Croatian edition of a classic of Russian literature. A masterpiece of satirical realism, it depicts the tragic story of the decline of the noble Golovlev family over several generations.

Gospodin G.A. u gradu X

Mr. G.A. in the City of X by Tibor Déry is a Kafkaesque dystopia about a man who arrives in a perfect city where everything is permitted, but precisely because of that, nothing has meaning or value anymore.

Graditelji života

A collection of revolutionary and socially engaged poetry by Marin Franičević. The poems celebrate the partisan struggle, the building of socialism, work, the collective, and the future, filled with optimism and faith in the "builders of a new life."