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The Wife And The Lover: English Edition
Paperback
Series: 19th Century Croatian Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 19 2026
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a world of rank, reputation, and rigid decorum, the heart seldom obeys.
When Count Adolf turns from his gentle, fragile wife Irena to the passionate and devoted Minka, a quiet domestic tragedy begins to unfold-one that neither remorse nor devotion can easily undo. As suspicion, sacrifice, and unspoken truths tighten their hold, each of the three is drawn into a moral struggle where love and duty stand fatally opposed.
Set against the fading elegance of the nineteenth-century Austro-Hungarian world, The Wife and the Lover is a finely wrought psychological drama of marriage, betrayal, and redemption. Rikard Jorgovanic's prose moves with deceptive simplicity, revealing, beneath its calm surface, a deep and often devastating insight into the human heart.
This new English translation restores a long-overlooked work of Croatian literature to modern readers, offering a story at once intimate and universal-of love tested, of conscience awakened, and of the cost of choices that cannot be undone.
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