Books from Croatia
22 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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Mothers and Daughters by Vedrana Rudan EN
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At the center of this novel is the story of a daughter looking after her mother, who's been admitted to a nursing home after a stroke landed her in the hospital. All her mother wants is pain medicine and to go home. This delicate situation serves as a jumping-off point for Rudan to wander freely through memories of her parents, her husband, friends, and a daughter of her own. Out of these elements, Rudan weaves together an unsentimental, unflinching story about the difficult love that exists between parents and children, the inability of people ever to say the right thing, the grotesque--yet u... continue
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Książki pełne są zbytecznych zdań, chciałam zatem w tej książce napisać tylko te, które są niezbędne. Niezbędne zdania znajdywałam, słuchając głosu instynktu - to on dawał mi sygnał, które zdania uwiecznić, a które nie. Tak powstały obrazy, podobne do partytury, chciałam, żeby czytelnik odbierał je jak najsilniej i jak najbardziej intymnie, tak jak odbiera się muzykę i, niekiedy, malarstwo. Obrazy łączyły się, następując jeden po drugim, powstawała opowieść o prywatnej tożsamości, ale i o tożsamości kolektywnej, o lękach, o przemocy, o złu... a tak naprawdę o końcu, o tym,... continue
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My Family and Other Enemies by Mary Novakovich EN
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Travel journalist Mary Novakovich explores her family's history in Lika in her native Croatia, recalling childhood visits and frequent trips over the years. Part travelogue, part memoir, it is also an exploration of identity for people with more than one ethnicity.
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On the Edge of Reason by Miroslav Krleza EN
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From the great Croatian writer: a masterly work of literature—hilarious, unforgiving, and utterly reasonable Until the age of fifty-two, the protagonist of On the Edge of Reason suffered a monotonous existence as a highly respected lawyer. He owned a carriage and wore a top hat. He lived the life of “an orderly good-for-nothing among a whole crowd of neat, gray good-for-nothings.” But, one evening, surrounded by ladies and gentlemen at a party, he hears the Director-General tell a lively anecdote of how he shot four men like dogs for trespassing on his property. In response, our hero blurts ou... continue
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Petar & Liza by Miroslav Sekulic Struja NL
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In this resplendently painted graphic novel, a poet and a dancer form a beautiful connection in a bleak world.
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S. : A Novel about the Balkans by Slavenka Drakulić EN
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Through a series of flashbacks, a Bosnian woman called S. recalls repeated rapes by Serbian soldiers in the "women's room" of a prison camp in Bosnia and the subsequent birth of a child who is unwanted, "one without a country, a name, a father, or a language."--Jacket.
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Split : A Novel by Alida Bremer EN
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Nazis, spies, romance, and murder collide in prewar eastern Europe in a mesmerizing historical novel by the award-winning author of Oliva's Garden. It's 1936. The seaside-resort village of Split on the Adriatic coast bustles. The tourist spots are booming, passenger steamers dot the harbor, and Jewish émigrés have found tenuous refuge from persecution. But as war in Europe looms, Split is also a nest of spies, fascists, and smugglers--and now, a locale suspiciously scouted by a German Reich film crew. Then one summer morning it becomes the scene of a murder investigation when a corpse is found... continue
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The Hotel Tito : A Novel by Ivana Bodrožić EN
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Winner of the Prix Ulysse for best debut novel in France Winner in Croatia and the Balkan region of the Kočićevo Pero Award, the Josip and Ivan Kozarac Award, and the Kiklop Award for the best work of fiction When the Croatian War of Independence breaks out in her hometown of Vukovar in the summer of 1991 she is nine years old, nestled within the embrace of family with her father, mother, and older brother. She is sent to a seaside vacation to be far from the hostilities. Meanwhile, her father has disappeared while fighting with the Croatian forces. By the time she returns at summer’s end ever... continue
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The Ministry of Pain : A Novel by Dubravka Ugresic EN
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Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and rubber S&M clothing at a sweatshop they call the "Ministry." Abandoning literature, Tanja encourages her students to indulge their "Yugonostalgia" in essays about their personal experiences during their homeland's cultural and physical disintegration. But Tanja's act of academic rebellion incites the rage of one renegade member of her class—and pulls he... continue
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They Would Never Hurt a Fly : War Criminals on Trial in The Hague by Slavenka Drakulić EN
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"Who were they? Ordinary people like you or me—or monsters?” asks internationally acclaimed author Slavenka Drakulic as she sets out to understand the people behind the horrific crimes committed during the war that tore apart Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Drawing on firsthand observations of the trials, as well as on other sources, Drakulic portrays some of the individuals accused of murder, rape, torture, ordering executions, and more during one of the most brutal conflicts in Europe in the twentieth century, including former Serbian president Slobodan Miloševic; Radislav Krstic, the first to be s... continue