Social literature

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 €
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

„Der Wirbelwind: Ein Theaterstück in vier Akten aus dem Küstenleben“ von Ivo Turina Gavrov ist ein Drama aus dem Küstenleben (Dalmatien) mit den Themen Familienkonflikte, Tradition, Liebe und sozialer Wandel.

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) ist ein früher Roman von John Galsworthy. Er schildert die Liebesgeschichte zwischen einer jungen Engländerin namens Christian und einem armen österreichischen Maler in Tirol sowie den Konflikt zwischen künstlerischen Idealen und bürge

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

Vjera za treći milenij

Colleen McCullough

„Glaube im dritten Jahrtausend“ ist ein futuristischer Roman von Colleen McCullough, der das Verhältnis von Glaube, Wissenschaft und Politik untersucht. In einer von Krisen geplagten Welt erscheint ein charismatischer Heiler, dessen Botschaft Hoffnung wec

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

Vojske

Evelio Rosero

Potresan roman o Ismaelu i njegovoj ženi Otiliji u kolumbijskom selu San Hoze, koje polako uništavaju različite vojske - gerilci, paravojske, vojska i narko-bande. Snažna slika besmisla građanskog rata i bespomoćnog pojedinca.

Hena Com, 2021.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
8.44 €
Voljeni pokojnik: angloamerička tragedija

Voljeni pokojnik: angloamerička tragedija

Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waughs satirischer Roman „Der geliebte Verstorbene“ erzählt die Geschichte eines britischen Auswanderers in Hollywood, der sich inmitten des absurden amerikanischen Bestattungsgeschäfts wiederfindet. Eine Dreiecksbeziehung endet in einer unerwartet

Znanje, 1982.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
5.12 - 5.14 €
Vrijeme nasilja

Vrijeme nasilja

Jean-Pierre Simon

A Time of Violence (1966) is an anti-war and activist novel by French writer Jean-Pierre Simon, a lesser-known author from the mid-20th century, whose work bears traces of leftist literature of the 1930s and 1940s.

Svjetlost, 1965.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
2.46 €
Vrt od stakla

Vrt od stakla

Tatiana Țîbuleac

A moving novel about a little girl, Lastočka, who is adopted from an orphanage by a Russian woman, Tamara, in Chisinau in the 1980s. A moving story about childhood, language, identity, and trauma in the final years of Soviet Moldova.

V.B.Z, 2021.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
9.32 €