Books from Croatia
34 popular croatian books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Croatia.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism by Slavenka Drakulić EN
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A wry, cutting deconstruction of the Communist empire by one of Eastern Europe's exceptional authors. Called "a perceptive and amusing social critic, with a wonderful eye for detail" by The Washington Post, Slavenka Drakulic-a native of Croatia-has emerged as one of the most popular and respected critics of Communism to come out of the former Eastern Bloc. In A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism, she offers a eight-part exploration of Communism by way of an unusual cast of narrators, each from a different country, who reflect on the fall of Communism. Together they constitute an Orwel... continue
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Adios, Cowboy by Olja Savičević EN
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A gritty, breakneck debut novel by a popular Croatian writer of the country's "lost generation." Dada's life is at a standstill in Zagreb--she's sleeping with a married man, working a dead-end job, and even the parties have started to feel exhausting. So when her sister calls her back home to help with their aging mother, she doesn't hesitate to leave the city behind. But she arrives to find her mother hoarding pills, her sister chain-smoking, her long-dead father's shoes still lined up on the steps, and the cowboy posters of her younger brother Daniel (who threw himself under a train four yea... continue
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Always Remember Your Name : The Children of Auschwitz by Andra Bucci, Tatiana Bucci EN
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The haunting memoir of two sisters among the very few children who survived Auschwitz, picking up where Anne Frank's Diary left off & giving voice to so many who were murdered.
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Atrapa a la liebre by Lana Bastašic ES
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Sara camina por St. Stephen’s Gardens, uno de los lugares más bellos de Dublín, su nuevo hogar.
Suena su celular, y escucha una voz surgida de los ecos de los tiempos, de la lejana penumbra de Bosnia: ¡Lejla! La urge: “Tienes que venir por mí enseguida. Tengo que ir a Viena”. Ante la sorpresa, reparos y confusión de Sara, Lejla pronuncia las palabras mágicas: “Sara, Armin está en Viena.”. Y Sara ya no duda: inmediatamente compra un pasaje a Zagreb.
Sara y Lejla atraviesan la bruma de Bosnia, y mientras recorren la ... continue
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Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić EN
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"Baba Yaga Laid an Egg takes a traditional myth and spins it afresh. The result is an extraordinary meditation on femininity, aging, identity, secrets and love." -- taken from jacket front flap.
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Café Europa Revisited : How to Survive Post-Communism by Slavenka Drakulić EN
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"Drakulić’s composite portrait provides a clear-eyed look at European values, and what they really amount to." —The New Yorker An evocative and timely collection of essays that paints a portrait of Eastern Europe thirty years after the end of communism. An immigrant with a parrot in Stockholm, a photo of a girl in Lviv, a sculpture of Alexander the Great in Skopje, a memorial ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the Soviet led army invasion of Prague: these are a few glimpses of life in Eastern Europe today. Three decades after the Velvet Revolution, Slavenka Drakulic, the author of Cafe Europ... continue
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Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastašic EN
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‘Two young women plunging into post-war Bosnia like two Alices into Wonderland . . . smart, energetic, passionate, announcing a major talent.’ - Aleksandar Hemon Sara hasn’t seen or heard from her childhood best friend, Lejla, in years. She’s comfortable with her life in Dublin, with her partner, their avocado plant, and their naturist neighbour. But when Lejla calls her and demands she come home to Bosnia, Sara finds that she can’t say no. What begins as a road trip becomes a journey through the past, as the two women set off to find Armin, Lejla’s brother who disappeared towards the end of t... continue
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Como si yo no estuviera by Slavenka Drakulic ES
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S. es bosnia y está en un hospital de Estocolmo, donde ha dado a luz un niño. ¿Por qué sólo siente indiferencia, y hasta se imagina sofocándolo con una almohada? No quiere ni siquiera verlo, y antes de que naciera ya lo había dispuesto todo para darlo en adopción. Pero ella casi no habla sueco, se produce un malentendido y las enfermeras lo dejan a su lado. Aquello abre las puertas de la memoria y S., en la cama del hospital, recuerda el verano de 1992, cuando los soldados serbios ocuparon el pueblo en el que ella vivía y trabajaba... continue
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Dark Mother Earth by Kristijan Novak EN
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An amnesiac writer's life of lies and false memories reaches a breaking point in this stunning English-language debut from an award-winning Croatian author. As a novelist, Matija makes things up for a living. Not yet thirty, he's written two well-received books. It's his third that is as big a failure as his private life. Unable to confine his fabrications to fiction, he's been abandoned by his girlfriend over his lies. But all Matija has is invention. Especially when it comes to his childhood and the death of his father. Whatever happened to Matija as a young boy, he can't remember. He feels ... continue
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El Ministerio del Dolor by Dubravka Ugresic ES
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«Todos estábamos sumidos en el caos Ya no estábamos seguros de qué éramos ni qué queríamos ser», reflexiona al inicio del curso Tanja Lucic ́, profesora croata exiliada de la antigua Yugoslavia La mayoría de sus alumnos de lengua y literatura serbocroata e