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  • af Gyula Krudy
    173,95 kr.

    In these short stories, Sindbad, a voyager in the realms of memory and imagination, travels through the centuries in pursuit of an ideal love that is directed as much at the feminine essence as at his individual lovers. This text is an erotic elegy to the dying Habsburg empire.

  • af Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz
    173,95 kr.

    Iwaszkiewicz's work is familiar to every Polish reader, yet remains unknown to the outside world. These stories were all written in the 1930s, and provide an extraordinary evocation of Poland's first brief era of independence between the wars. They are also timeless sonatas of love and loss.

  • af Stefan Żeromski
    237,95 kr.

    Tells the story of Cezary Baryka, a young Pole who finds himself in Baku, Azerbaijan, then a predominantly Armenian city, as the Russian Revolution breaks out. He becomes embroiled in the chaos caused by the revolution, and barely escapes with his life. Then, he and his father set off on a horrendous journey west to reach Poland.

  • af Friedebert Tuglas
    173,95 kr.

    Features nine stories, and an essay, which were written during the World War One, or in the first years of Estonian independence in the early 1920s. They reflect the troubled spirit of the times, but exhibit the influence of a wide selection of writers, ranging from O Wilde and M Gorky, to F Nietzsche and Edgar Allan Poe.

  • af Ivan Olbracht
    169,95 kr.

    Involvement in the Zionist movement takes Hannah from her Jewish village in Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia to a commune in a nearby town, where she falls in love with Ivo Karajich: a Jew, yet not a Jew. The ensuing drama plants into her eyes the hard grain of sorrow that her children will also inherit.

  • - and Other Stories
    af Janis Ezerioo
    169,95 kr.

    Ezerioo is one of Latvia's few world - class classicists. He was a writer of choleric disposition, often explosive, portraying people and the world with real drama, but at the same time, as part of a grotesque game, a procession in carnival masks.

  • af Milutin Cihlar Nehajev
    215,95 kr.

    "Bijeg" is a novel by the Croatian writer Milutin Cihlar Nehajev, here translated into English by Damir Janigro with the title "Fugue." Regarded as a paramount example of Croatian literature from the Modernist era, it offers a captivating portrayal of the culture in pre-World War I Austro-Hungary. The story revolves around Duro, a talented and aspiring writer who abandons his studies in Vienna to take up a teaching position in Senj, a small coastal town in Croatia. Duro's aspirations include marrying a woman from Zagreb, but his plans are thwarted when her family objects due to the absence of the inheritance he had hoped for from his deceased uncle. The central theme of the novel explores the struggles faced by a gifted and principled individual in an inhospitable environment that often fails to comprehend his efforts to improve the world. The male and female characters are well-crafted and captivating, and the novel contains breathtaking descriptions of the natural beauty of the Croatian coast.

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