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Otvoreni prozor C

#openwindow

15,00 €

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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Vjetrohod C

Windwalk

16,00 €

At first glance, this unusual picture book seems to be entirely dedicated to the endless diversity of winds. But in fact, it questions the ways in which people experience and describe the world. The main character of the story, Tanja the Windwalker, initially performs her job in accordance with the rules and expectations of the wind observation service. However, over time, this passionate wind lover is no longer satisfied with the ordinary language of official reports; she begins to write differently – more personally and poetically, and it takes her more time to formulate sentences. At the same time, various wind officials find it increasingly difficult to understand her… The author of the text, Igor Rajki, conjures up Tanja’s experiences in the worlds of wind and language with strange new coinages and quirky puns, while the illustrator Klasja Habjan creates an imaginative visual world in harmony with the story.

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Zasto je Bach C

Why Bach Said Ah

15,00 €

Vesna Matana Matić

Vesna Matana Matić, an experienced musician with pedagogical experience, in her playful fantasy on the subject of classical music and modern technology, conjures up the great composer surrounded by his numerous children. Children’s cries, laughter and insistent questions are the lively background against which Johann Sebastian’s works are created – until the moment when the composer calls for help from the future, so that he can work in peace. Help does indeed arrive, in the form of a little girl, Selfiene, who gives Bach’s children smartphones. A silence ensues in which no one even notices the house cat any more. But this silence is not in the least stimulating: the melodies in the composer’s head have also fallen silent… This picture book is designed so that the youngest readers can learn something about classical music in a fun way, but also to reflect on the changes that electronic devices have brought to family life. The text is accompanied by imaginative illustrations by the young artist Doria Jantolić.

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Kosjenka i Regoc naslovnica

Kosjenka and Regoč

17,00 €

One of the most popular fairy tales penned by Ivana Brlić Mažuranić, and one of those that Croatian children first encounter, is precisely the one about Regoč. However, even though the original story is entitled simply “Regoč”, the little fairy Kosjenka plays a more important role in it. Curious and lively, she sets the sluggish giant on an adventure. Cheerful when she finds company, compassionate in times of trouble, she sacrifices all her fairy magic for new friends, for children from two feuding villages near the Zlovoda lake. Although the two main characters belong to the realm of the fantastical, the story ends on a perfectly human note, with the construction of a new village. And while Regoč returns to his town of Legen, Kosjenka can no longer go back among the fairies, so she stays with the children from the village – as well as with little readers. For this silent book, visual artist Vendi Vernić told Ivana Brlić Mažuranić’s story in a purely visual language. For those who do not know the original, there is a small glossary at the beginning. Converted into pictures, the story becomes accessible to preschool readers.

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

17,00 €

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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Around Ogorje

15,00 €

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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Hahari na dnu mulja C

Rascals in the Gutter

17,00 €

In the best tradition of young adult novels, but with a fresh voice, Josip Čekolj recounts the story of his rascals — four friends on the brink of adulthood. Although the town through which they roam is imaginary, their love and confusion, their conflicts and blunders, much like their need for warmth and belonging are all very real. As the rascals learn to find their way ‘in the gutter’, various characters show up to guide them along. Some are more trustworthy than others, and they largely come from the fringes of society, with perhaps the most important being an old lady with her cats and flair for poetry. And as usually happens in coming-of-age stories, their wading through murky waters becomes a first step towards maturity. The inspiration for this book was the exhibition ‘Rascals and Frogs’ by the visual artist Dominik Vuković, themed around memories of childhood. He illustrated this edition in close collaboration with the author, resulting in a special relationship between the text and illustrations.

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Slova za svakoga C

Letters for Everyone

15,00 €

Sanja Lovrenčić

This playful and cheerful book is perfect for those learning to read as well as for those who are helping them in this endeavor. Every of thirty very short stories – in which numerous characters, both human and animal, appear – is dominated by one single letter. This letter can be searched for, with ears or eyes, and every story can be continued. This unique spelling book invites the reader to play whereby it turns gaining reading habits into an easy and fun project.

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Kabinet za sentimentalnu C

The Cabinet for Sentimental Trivial Literature

12,00 €

Sanja Lovrenčić

Shortlisted for the Predrag Matvejević Award 2021, longlisted for the Fric Award 2019 Sanja Lovrenčić’s books draw into her net a reader who is ready for adventure, for whom reading is not merely following a linear plot and a pastime, but recognition and acceptance of a game that, when joined, becomes infinitely meaningful, subtle and even fun. Her new novel, entitled Cabinet for Sentimental Trivial Literature, in which is its set, but which is also an indicative determinant of what will be told, is certainly one of the “more readable” of her novels, i.e. one in which there are no traps for readers, unless they themselves want to fall into them. Also, as is often the case with this author, its structure is built somewhat conceptually, by changing the epistolary form, which makes up the main flow of narration, with inserted stories that form a rounded and meaningful whole it. There has been a crisis in the Cabinet, which is a kind of small, private and non-profit museum that houses the legacy of “sentimental and trivial literature”. The curator, who writes letters to the late founder Rosa, realizes that not only does the Cabinet need a “cash injection”, but also a new guardian to replace him. Since this is not just an ordinary job but also has a specific emotional and, of course, sentimental value, neither is easy to perform, and a job advertisement that includes one of the key sentences of the novel: “Your story is more important to us than your qualifications”, will further complicate matters. (…) Ten candidates apply to the ad that had inadvertently implied that candidates should also be writers, and they bring with them stories about their professional and private lives, sometimes completely bizarre, but also stories that make up an integral part of the novel. While the curator, who is becoming more and more desperate and sceptical, fills letters to Rosa with fragments from his own and the Cabinet’s everyday life, as well as those concerning the past, origin and meaning of her and his museum, an unusual and “soft” legacy that seems to have been run-over by a time of different imperatives and priorities, the candidates succeed one another before him, with their experiences, but above all with the stories they enclose, enabling the novel to emerge from the closed space of the Cabinet into the outside, towards modernity and its peculiarities and problems. This “opening” – placed in stories within the story – subtly positions the novel towards recent reality, because it indirectly deals with the themes of art and artistic activism, social responsibility, commercialization and the entry of capital into unprofitable spheres of human activity, feminism. science and technology, but also love, which is one of the shared motives and concerns both interpersonal relationships and the preservation of some past values. (Jagna Pogačnik)

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U razdoblju zaracenih drzava C

In the Age of Warring States

22,00 €

This book is an unusual intellectual autobiography. Firstly, because it consists largely of poetry. And secondly, because the author, Darko Suvin — Professor Emeritus at McGill University in Canada — barely touches upon the central theme of his prolific international career: science fiction. Yet, the poetic and translated texts he has gathered for this edition span seven decades and constitute a lesser-known but significant part of his oeuvre. Since he translated poetry primarily for himself, his selection criteria were based on personal affinity; consequently, his translations — which might best be viewed, in places, as creative renderings — encompass a diverse range of writers, from Laforgue, Housman, Wilde, and Éluard to Du Fu, Chaucer, Brecht, and Fortini. His own poetry, meanwhile, is wide open to both the world of literature and the world of reality; it includes references to political events, wars, and the Capitalocene, alongside a poetic dialogue with the Greek poet Sappho and intimate moments of confronting time and old age. The book’s central section, titled “Parables from the Warring States Period,” is a series of short prose pieces born of the author’s interest in East Asian thought and literature. The short autobiographical texts at the beginning and end of the book are also in prose, as are the notes that situate specific poem cycles in time and space. In this way, the author creates a harmoniously cadenced whole that reflects his journey through the world of words and ideas. Darko Suvin himself selected and arranged the texts for this edition, and the editorial team adhered strictly to his guidelines. Linguistically, the work reflects the changes the Croatian language has undergone over time — evident to the modern reader — while also containing a number of distinctive traits we simply termed “Suvinisms” during the production of the book. Although many of the poems have previously appeared in literary journals, some are published here for the first time. With this selection of writings from “a time of warring states” — an era that shows no sign of relenting — the Mala zvona publishing house aims to introduce a valuable part of this exceptional author’s body of work to the domestic audience.

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A Circle Around the Sun

19,00 €

Sanja Lovrenčić

A woman faces the imminent loss of a friend — or rather, a family member. That companion is a dog, and the woman is a poet. The author’s highly distinctive poetics — characterized by fragmented images distilled to their essential, defining elements and a discourse of negotiation (“negotiating for words” — to paraphrase another prominent Croatian poet — but also for meaning and security in an often senseless and uncertain world) — are particularly well-suited for verbalising this experience, which is at once universal and deeply personal. It is only seemingly paradoxical that this text, primarily concerned with impermanence, revolves around endurance: nature, seasonal rhythms, life, and death are all processes inseparable from time and its inherent illogicalities — its varying paces, pauses, and sudden leaps. Sanja Lovrenčić’s new collection fits naturally into the All Things Alive series, serving as a poetic chronicle of a farewell, an attempt to accept the unacceptable, and a profound, multi-layered tribute to the bonds we share with our animal companions — bonds inextricably intertwined with our own habits, daily lives, hopes, sense of security, and even our very identities.

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Vazno pitanje o pjescanicima C

An Important Question Regarding Sandboxes

18,00 €

This lively and funny picture book aims to answer an important question: why should sandboxes in kindergartens be covered over at night? The story about four coluorful piglets provides an entertaining and unexpected explanation of a completely ordinary phenomenon from children’s everyday life – the covering over of the kindergarten sandbox at the end of the day. Although it relies mostly on humour, the story also unobtrusively raises important questions about order, responsibility, and shared space, which is extremely useful in a pedagogical sense for preschool and early school-age children. Laura Martinović’s collage illustrations skillfully follow the tone and rhythm of the text.

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Rukovet C

A Handful of Night Journeys

16,00 €

The fourth poetry book by the young award-winning poet Josip Čekolj takes the reader on unexpected journeys through literary worlds. On the nocturnal reading and writing paths, poems in the form of acrostics are created. For these, the poet chooses the first sentences from novels that in some way marked his childhood and youth. In this way, he creates an original dialogue between poetry and prose, erasing the boundaries between older and contemporary literature and between works for children and adults. The diversity of poetic images in this little linguistic masterpiece does not contradict the unity of the whole, which is based on a kind of substrate of the author’s reflection on the world. Acting in the dual role of reader and writer, Čekolj creates verses that spring from personal memories and experiences, resonating with broader social and political problems. The collection is full of strange stylistic figures and unusual syntactic turns, which on the one hand consistently maintain the concept of an acrostic, and on the other reflect the author’s imaginative and creative freedom. With its sense of rhythm and sonority of language, “A Handful of Night Journeys” builds on Čekolj’s previous books, but it also opens up a new poetic direction along the tracks of lyrical language – a conceptually well-thought-out and stylistically rounded work that captivates with its freshness and layered vision.

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Notes from the Source, Questions for Later

21,00 €

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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Umjetnost umije C

Art is Smart

18,00 €

At the heart of the new picture book by the award-winning illustrator Agata Lučić is art itself, in all its joyful forms. On the pages of this book, intended for children, but which will delight and cheer up adults as well, we will hear numerous and varied answers to the questions of what art can do, where it can be found, how we can most easily encounter it. ‘Art is Smart’ is a praise of art itself, but also a short lesson for the young ones about different kinds of artistic activity and their equal importance. The picture book is abundantly and dynamically illustrated in the author’s recognizable style, and the text flows in an unstilted poetic style, with cheerful rhymes that arouse curiosity in the reader and draw her on to an optimistic close.

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Odraz u kisi C

A Reflection in the Rain

17,00 €

Jasmina Kosanović

Jasmina Kosanović, the author of a series of interesting and well-received picture books, does not seem to know how to tell a story about rain. Instead of words, images come to her, all airy and gentle – truly rainy. But for those who like to give themselves over to their imagination, every illustration in this picture book can be the beginning of an adventure. What are those people waiting for under their umbrellas? Who does a sad man with a scarf break up with? Who is behind the windows where the drops are pouring down? Where is the sailboat sailing under an almost clear, yet still rain-soaked sky? A series of rainy scenes results in the author seeing her own self clearly, sun kissed. Those who imagine a series of their own rainy stories will perhaps find out something about themselves, once they eventually emerge from Jasmina’s dreamy, watercolour world.

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