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Empuzij by Olga Tokarczuk, Mladen Martić
Najnoviji roman Olge Tokarczuk, prvi nakon njezine Nobelove nagrade, briljantan je dijalog s Čarobnom gorom!
Student strojarstva iz Lavova, Mieczysław …
Renata rated Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: 5 stars
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya V. Hartman
At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The …
Renata rated The Emperor of Gladness: 4 stars
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a …
Renata rated Rat Bohemia: 5 stars
Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman
First published in 1995, this award-winning novel, written from the epicentre of the AIDS crisis, is a bold, achingly honest …
Renata rated The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity: 4 stars
The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity by Sarah Schulman
From award-winning writer Sarah Schulman, a longtime social activist and outspoken critic of the Israeli war on Gaza, comes a …
Renata rated Perfection: 3 stars
Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman
There’s a voice in Aline’s head: a voice that wants out.
Brash, boisterous and sexually adventurous, this voice seems to …
Renata rated Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl: 5 stars
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and …
The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets caught up in …
Renata rated The Goldfinch: 5 stars
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel …
Renata rated It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over: 2 stars
James by Percival Everett
A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of view
When Jim …
Renata rated Paradise rot: 2 stars
Paradise rot by Jenny Hval
Jo is in a strange new country for university, and having a more peculiar time than most. A house with …
Renata rated Joyful militancy: 4 stars
Joyful militancy by Nick Montgomery, carla bergman
"Why do radical movements and spaces sometimes feel laden with fear, anxiety, suspicion, self-righteousness, and competition? Montgomery and Bergman call …