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.
At the heart of this fascinating multi-layered adventure novel is an authentic account of the fate of the Austro-Hungarian expedition to the North Pole in 1873.
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...
Sipar, 2007.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
5.50 €
Fantastic literature • Horror/Gothic • German literature
The second part of the tetralogy by German Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers, is entitled Young Joseph. This tetralogy is considered one of the most important works by Thomas Mann, as well as by German literature of the twentieth cen
Fraktura, 2009.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
27.34 €
German literature • Psychological novel • Thriller
A thriller is a fun, dynamic book that can be read in one breath, a book that seems to have been created on the model of all those crazy, unforgettable adventure novels that we used to read rather than as reading material. A novel in which the main charac
Fraktura, 2007.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
5.24 €
German literature • Autobiographies and Memoirs