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The Silence of Green

~~33,00 €~~ 26,40 €

Iva Valentić, Sanja Lovrenčić

Direct contact with nature plays an important role in this little poetic and visual trilogy by two authors, Sanja Lovrenčić and Iva Valentić. Each in her own way, they experience the green worlds – even if those worlds are small, squeezed between concrete and asphalt – as spaces for a silence that is a departure from everyday reality and a prerequisite for creative work. The Silence of Green was originally the title of a series of the authors’ eleven handwritten art books. Connecting the domain of words and the domain of images, they spent several months dealing with urban greenery, transferring the imprints of fragility, diversity, and vitality of urban plants into their hybrid medium. Growing out of this greenery and returning to it again, as a reflection of the life cycle of the plant world, are the calm, contemplative, and questioning verses of Sanja Lovrenčić, as well as the organically flowing illustrations in ink and stamps by Iva Valentić. The authors collected sketches and notes that were made during the period of work on the manuscript books, supplemented them and prepared them for this edition. The trilogy The Silence of Green consists of the volumes Clear Images, Excerpts from a Personal Chronicle and The Silence of Green: The City, all together in a wonderful paper box. It was designed and produced as a bibliophile edition.

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Notes from the Source, Questions for Later

~~21,00 €~~ 16,80 €

Tomislav Pavelić

An architect with previous experience as author, in his new book conceived as a sort of travel journal, Tomislav Pavelić reflects on the (co)relationships between man and nature, space and place, history and the present. At the end of his often erudite considerations, he asks questions that serve as both the starting point and the destination of these journeys. Without offering hasty answers, he invites us to approach universal problems with an open mind, illustrated in concrete examples of the regions visited, which form the colorful and dynamic decor of this book: places like Armenia, Sicily, Andalusia, Albania etc. All of these locations and cultures can teach us something about the past, but at the same time they allow us a clearer view into the murky and uncertain future of our civilization.

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Red Doves

~~19,00 €~~ 15,20 €

Sanja Lovrenčić

The plot of this novel begins with the female narrator’s arrival on an unnamed Mediterranean island. She has inherited a house in an almost abandoned village and comes to see it; it is a good reason to get away from her daily struggles for a while. The landscape around her is nostalgically idyllic: crumbling stone houses, wild capers, homemade cheese, sunshine and wind. Everything suggests that there, at a distance from people, precarious jobs and urban routine, she’ll find a space for introspection, for facing her past, her desires and hopes. Along with the house, however, the narrator inherited a dovecot with a flock of pigeons bred by her deceased cousin, Toni. When she decides to release them from their prison, she has no idea that these homing birds will soon return to her along with six peculiar guests – Toni’s old friends. They organize a memorial party for him, and during three consecutive evenings they relate fragments of their shared past. Were they an international theater troupe that wandered the Mediterranean small towns in the seventies, or active participants in the political turmoil of the age of lead – it is difficult for the heroine to decide. At the end of the party, before they go away, the strange guests explain the true nature of her newly acquired inheritance: along with the house, she gets the obligation to tell their story, a story she did not fully grasp. And that’s where the Mediterranean idyll comes to an end: it will be replaced by a research into international terrorism in the 1970s, a personal revolt against the clash of wealth and poverty at that time and in the present, growing compassion for non-human living world and growing anger provoked by deadly business practices, cyber-subversions, anger, fear and escape. To the fragments of her guests’ stories the heroine will react creating her own, a story that she will – when the storm she provoked subsides – almost unintentionally leave as a legacy to the new generation.

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U portrazi za Ivanom C

Searching for Ivana

~~18,00 €~~ 14,40 €

Sanja Lovrenčić

A biographical novel by Sanja Lovrenčić about the Croatian author Ivana Brlić Mažuranić. Written in the first-person singular, the story develops on two levels, in the past and in the present, unfolding around the changing and yet unchanging topics of family relations, artistic creation and female existence in the world of literature.

“K.Š.Gjalski” Award for the best Croatian novel in 2007.

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The Door I Do Not Know How to Open

~~17,00 €~~ 13,60 €

There is a door that we don’t know how to open. Behind them lies the solution to the riddle, the beginning-and-end. This door leading to afterlife or to the void, are constantly present in some way in the ninth poetry book of the noted Croatian author Marija Lamot. But there are also numerous smaller doors that open wide in her poems – doors leading to memories, landscapes, mirrors, moments scattered in time, flashes of an intense present. They lead into the night, into bright light, into a classroom where philosophy is discussed, into family spaces and, above all, to trees and other beings that do not speak in human voices.

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Chet Baker na plazi C

Chet Baker on the Beach

~~17,00 €~~ 13,60 €

In the new poetry book by the acclaimed and award-winning Croatian poet Ivan Babić, “Chet Baker on the Beach”, the readers will notice, on the one hand, the maturity, clarity of concept and stylistic certainty of this experienced writer, and on the other hand his talent for a short form that unites the lyrical and the meditative, and within which the author manages to transform elements of sensory, organic reality into imaginative metaphor. The dominant thematic framework of these subtle poems is love. The foreboding of opening up to another person, the fragility of closeness, unrest, hope and absence alternate like musical variations in a book that is, as the title already testifies, inspired and imbued with music. Music is, however, most present in the poems of the central, titular cycle, where it appears in a multiple role – as an incentive for language, as a possibility of dialogue across the barriers that separate different artistic disciplines, as an embodiment of psychological states and moods. Breath and respiration run through the manuscript as an organic link between music and song, but also as the presence of the living world of nature for which the author shows a special sensitivity (noted in his previous collections). Babić’s sense of language is manifested in lexical abundance, a flexible sentence that manages to remain light despite its complexity, an imaginative but unobtrusive creation of neologisms, and the ability to create a small, concise and rounded whole with well-chosen words.

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Notes from Encountered Lands

~~17,00 €~~ 13,60 €

Miroslav Kirin’s book of travelogues brings together notes from different periods of the author’s life, but thanks to the coherence of his view and characteristic stylistic refinement, makes an organic whole. You could call it a kind of triptych: it starts with notes from Paris in 2005, the middle and most complex part is dedicated to the author’s sojourns in China, and the book ends with very short notes from various trips through Croatia. The author’s observations move in a wide range: from very simple everyday little things that catch his eye to the broad cultural issues of the Far East. Despite the variety of motives seen in the “encountered lands”, the traveler’s eye shows the same curiosity and the same clarity. The moments he records often turn into micro-stories, and out of the multitude of human outlines that appear in his notes and notebooks, some gain fullness and turn into impressive characters. Poetry runs through Kirin’s notes as a kind of weft – sometimes as initiator of travel, sometimes as an object of work and thought, sometimes as a latent awareness of the poetic values of language. Therefore, this book can give pleasure to both travel lovers and to all those who enjoy good literature.

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Stories for the End of the World (and Other Everyday Trifles)

~~17,00 €~~ 13,60 €

Sanja Lovrenčić

Don’t let the title fool you – in these witty micro-stories the end of the world is happening on an (almost) everyday level and “other trifles” may have an unexpected depth. Miniatures by Sanja Lovrenčić, organized in eight “chapters”, seemingly adapted to the short attention span of a modern reader, take into account things like morning-garbage-squads, polar bear wisdom, exodus of delivery people, time-stay-machines, mythical journeys and metaphorical animals. Sometimes entertaining, sometimes meditative, the author’s voice stays firm in defending the art of painting/playing with words and especially vocal against false/alternative literature that (allegedly) paints reality, media, and politics.

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The Female World of the British Raj

~~17,00 €~~ 13,60 €

Biljana Romić, born in 1960, is a Croatian indologist and cultural editor. She gained her Master of Arts title in 1997 in Zagreb, with a study of Bharati Mukherjee and postcolonial migrant faiths. She has ever since actively been researching and writing about postcolonialism and the notion of the Other. Her extensive study The women’s world of British India was written after she spent several years studying diaries and letters written by “memsahibs”. Her work is not simply a historical overview of their lives and roles during colonialism, it puts colonial history, literature and the notion of the “Other” in a contemporary critical context; Romić analyses over one hundred and fifty sources, including Indrani Sen, Amandeep Kaur, Kumari Jayawardena and Shashi Tharoor. When reading about the British colonial venture in India, we mostly encounter works that have been written from the male perspective of conquests and regimen – but colonial women have, almost from the very beginning, been a part of this venture. Biljana Romić’s book brings us the voices of these women and their lives. They journeyed into the unknown, often not prepared for the adversities of a different climate and the social roles they were going to find themselves in. They went into the unknown as wives, governesses, teachers, as young women in search of a husband; sometimes as entrepreneurs, missionaries, adventurers. Many stayed within the expected roles given by the British colonial community, but some of them showed that it is possible to overcome the limitations of their era, class and gender when it comes to their relation to India and Indians. Biljana Romić talks about the so-called “little history”, the one that appears on the margins of big historical events – and without which it is impossible to gain a complete picture of a time that has passed.

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Chopin C

Chopin

~~17,00 €~~ 13,60 €

A book on Frederic Chopin written by his colleague and friend Franz Liszt. Croatian translation of the first French edition. Preface by pianist Veljko Glodić, professor at the Music Academy in Zagreb.

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Opsjene i sablasti C

Deceptions and Spectres

~~16,00 €~~ 12,80 €

Rudyard Kipling

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Otvoreni prozor C

#openwindow

~~15,00 €~~ 12,00 €

This collection of short texts enitled “#openwindow” is an outstanding example of how high-quality and original literature can be created on social media. For a year, author Aida Bagić wrote morning notes while looking out the window in her bedroom and published them on social media, with accompanying photographs. This project was called #openwindow, and resulted in a variety of texts – prose and poetry fragments, comments on daily events, notes on dreams and memories, wordplay and sketches of fairy tales. Often meditative, sometimes factual or playful, they reveal that the author is a skilled writer with an experience in writing poetry. Collected in this book, these notes show how an everyday object can stimulate our imagination, reflection, and introspection. Created in front of a window that opens onto external landscapes, they outline the author’s world of thought and emotion as a unique and interesting inner landscape. These texts are also an invitation to readers to think about their own everyday life, about ways in which they could rethink it so that it is not only more bearable, but also a source of genuine curiosity, sometimes even joy.

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Around Ogorje

~~15,00 €~~ 12,00 €

Zvjezdana Jembrih

In Zvjezdana Jembrih’s third poetry collection all the potentials of her writing merge and come to full expression. Inspired by the specific space, a village in the Split hinterland, the author creates a series of impressive records, reaching a rare level of literary quality. Details from the chosen environment become triggers for surprising images in which the near and the far, the real and the unreal mix, with not even a shadow of sentimentality or commonplace thinking. The poems gathered in this book were created over several years, by slow distillation of the essentials. The result of this process captivates with the range of poetic imagination, the purity and consistency of the concept, the harmonious blending of direct observation, unobtrusive erudition and the ability to translate into a unique language the emotions stirred by different aspects of a (neglected) landscape and its inhabitants.

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Tocka Nemo C

Point Nemo

~~14,00 €~~ 11,20 €

Mladen Kopjar is an author with extensive experience in writing different types of literary texts. In “Point Nemo”, his first collection of poetry, this experience is reflected in the ease and skill with which he builds his poetic world, as well as in his thoughtful and consistent poetics. The origins of the poems are usually in everyday life, its spaces, objects, small events, memories, but thanks to the gift of observation and skillful selection of details, the author skillfully avoids the superficiality and banality of “realistic” writing. Freedom and imagination lead him from concrete experience to surreal images in which personal associations are mixed with various fragments from the ubiquitous virtual space. But the unique tone of this collection stems from the deep emotionality with which the whole is imbued; the author addresses (or talks about) his loved ones: wife, child, parents, meandering through areas of tenderness and pain. In that intimate space, the outside world is mirrored in flashes; the original clash between an authentically, intensely internal world and a diverse, sometimes aggressive external world gives this poetry strength and interest.

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Dormitory

~~14,00 €~~ 11,20 €

Although it could seem that the primary origin of this poetry is the world of words – the author recurrently affirms the experience of reading as something very much alive and inspiring – the contact with her own material environment is equally important for Lidija Dujić. And no matter how linguistically complex, surprising, metaphorical this poetry is, and how far it takes (ironic) distance from reality, it always remains tied to the real moment that triggered poetic imagination and caused poetic language to flow. Singling out some moments, turning flashes of reality into a thoughtful linguistic structure, the poet creates original and meditative images, with a clear awareness of poetry as non-ordinary speech.

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Kratak put kuci C

A Short Trip Home and other Stories

~~14,00 €~~ 11,20 €

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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