New Book selects titles for you to read during summer days. Books that you'll want to take to the beach, the mountains, or that will simply make the city heat more bearable.
From classics of world literature and cult contemporary novels, to bestsellers of popular psychology and the latest titles by domestic and regional authors, as well as books for the youngest - you will definitely find something for yourself here.
We are always in good company with a book!
1. Slavica Perović - New Nora
The story of a woman who saves the hearts of children on the operating table every day, but cannot find a cure for her own heart that suffers and loves.
Slavica Perović's Nova Nora is a multi-layered novel that explores the inner drama of a woman faced with the inability to reconcile her own identities – wife, mother and top cardiac surgeon – in a world that imposes boundaries between her private and public life. The novel intertwines themes of love, motherhood, professional ambition and social expectations, pointing out the injustice of gender roles that attribute privacy to women and public to men. Nova Nora is the expected form that the old, Ibsenian Nora could have turned into if she had continued to search for herself throughout the 20th century, survived all the waves of feminism, 21, social changes in which women gained crumbs of freedom, collected all the benefits of women's emancipation along the way, made it to the third decade of the XNUMXst century and returned home with the same question - How can I be happy?
2. Former Vitmen - Pesme
New in the edition of Nova knjiga and Kosmos
The book Poems brings a selection of verses by one of the greatest American poets, which will be enjoyed by all poetry lovers, as well as those who are yet to become one.
3. Najad El Haqmi - The Last Representative of the Patriarchy
A story about a personal rebellion against the established family order.
Mimun Driuć and his daughter were born to fulfill the role assigned to them by the patriarchy, but changing circumstances will decisively affect the change in their way of life. The novel illuminates the complexity of family relationships, marked by internal disagreements and contradictions, from moments of great tenderness to brutal human drama. Based on the masterful use of oral traditions, the work raises important questions, inspires and challenges. The novel has been translated into several world languages, confirming its universal significance.
4. Carl Gustav Jung - Man and His Symbols
If it weren't for one dream, this book would never have been written.
This dream, described by John Freeman in the preface, convinced Jung that he should, in fact, that he was obliged to explain his ideas to those who had no special knowledge of psychology. This is Jung's last work, on which he worked in the last months of his life. In this book, Jung and his collaborators develop the idea that a person can become a whole being only if he accepts and explores his own unconscious, which in human life manifests itself most flagrantly through dreams and symbols. Each dream represents a direct, personal and meaningful address to the dreamer. This address uses symbols common to all humanity, but always individualizes them in a completely different, individual way.
5. Mario Vargas Llosa - Pantaleon and the Visitors
In this novel, the Nobel laureate humorously addresses topics that he had previously treated with the utmost seriousness.
Captain Pantaleon Pantoha, who has never failed in his duty, is assigned a special task - to establish a secret service of prostitutes in order to satisfy the insatiable hunger of soldiers in the remote areas of Peru, so that they no longer rape peasant women. But if only he had organized this matter at least half-heartedly, in a shoddy way! Under the leadership of the zealous Pantoha, the Service of Visitors becomes the most effective organ of the armed forces. In this novel, two untouchable institutions will be under attack from criticism - the army and the church. With extraordinary humor, Vargas Llosa ridicules religious fanaticism, military zeal and the hypocrisy of society, but indirectly pays tribute to all the victims who, in one way or another, fell for freedom.
6. John Steinbeck - The Winter of Our Discontent
From the winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Steinbeck's novel The Winter of Our Discontent was published in 1961. It depicts American society during the 50s and 60s. Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of the novel, loses his status as a member of the Long Island aristocratic class after the death of his father. Ethan's fall will not be understood by his family, and he enters the network of corruption and depravity of American society. The high moral principles of the main character will be tested by his environment and he will have to adapt to a world in which everything works through lies, deception, selfish impulses that lead to the destruction of humanistic ideals. The line between private and public is very thin, and his process of adaptation can lead him to critical choices and the fatal consequences of these choices.
7. Sali Runi - Wonderful world, where are you?
A novel in which Sali Runi bravely, unabashedly, and deadly accurately depicts the state of our consciousness and our world, a novel in which she justifies the epithet of the best writer of her generation.
A young writer Alice decides to move from Dublin to a small town in the west of Ireland, where she meets Felix, a warehouseman, on Tinder, and despite their first failed encounter, she unexpectedly invites him to travel with her to the launch of her novel. In Dublin, her best friend Ellen is going through difficult times and is starting to date Simon, her childhood sweetheart, again. Alice, Felix, Ellen and Simon are still young, but life is taking them by storm. They need each other, they play with each other, they get closer and further apart, they make love, they doubt themselves and their feelings, but most of all they are worried about the world they live in – a world on the brink of ecological disaster, ruled by Trump, the world of neoliberalism. They wonder if they are the last to witness the end of an era, how to help the impoverished, and whether they will be able to restore their own faith in our wonderful world.
8. Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
A masterpiece by the British Nobel laureate, awarded the Booker Prize.
The novel is, by the consensus of critics, one of the best novels of contemporary literature. The Remains of the Day offers a profound and fascinating portrait of Stephen, the perfect butler, and his hidden world set in post-World War II England. The novel follows a single day in Stephen's life. At the end of his decades-long service at Darlington Hall, Stephen embarks on a retrospective journey through his past, intent on convincing himself that he has served humanity, serving the excellent "gentleman" Lord Darlington. However, the unusual nature of the memories and suggestions that have never been fully clarified seem to reveal a new Lord Darlington, and thereby call into question the nature of Stephen's life, his decades-long service, and his very intimate self-understanding.
9. Ivica Ivanišević - Tomorrow is a new lunch
An unusual combination of crime and humor novel.
Ivanišević has created an interesting plot driven by two characters who are in many ways opposites. Mario Nalis is a Split police inspector approaching his sixties, and his partner Nina Krajač is a Zagreb detective in her thirties who, after an emotional breakdown in a relationship, comes from Zagreb to Split hoping to find peace. The main characters of the novel will have to solve a difficult case of mysterious murders in an alley in the old part of Split together. Although imbued with humor, the novel is also read as a sharp criticism of contemporary Croatian society.
10. Robin Sharma - The Wealth That Money Can't Buy
A completely new, life-changing philosophy and methodology for enjoying a truly abundant life.
Robin Sharma's new book is a guide and inspiration for a life filled with personal power and authenticity. Based on the Eight Forms of Wealth learning model, which Robin Sharma—a legendary personal development expert and mentor to billionaires, professional sports superstars, and statesmen—has presented to his clients with transformative results, this masterful work is sure to become your daily guide to achieving the life of your greatest dreams. Discover the hidden habits for a life filled with wealth and avoid the long-term regrets of unfulfilled potential.
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