Ana Schnabl: Mojstrovina (The Masterpiece)
The latest addition to my website is Ana Schnabl's Mojstrovina (The Masterpiece). The novel is set primarily in 1985, five years after Tito's death but with Slovenia still part of…
Mitja Čander: Slepec (Blind Man)
The latest addition to my website is Mitja Čander's Slepec (Blind Man). Our hero is not blind but, because of a defect at birth, has very poor sight. He works…
Katja Perat: Mazohistka (The Masochist)
The latest addition to my website is Katja Perat's Mazohistka (The Masochist). The novel is narrated by Nadezhda von Moser. She was found as a baby, abandoned, in a basket…
Ivan Cankar: Hiša Marije Pomočnice (The Ward of Our Lady of Mercy)
The latest addition to my website is Ivan Cankar's Hiša Marije Pomočnice (The Ward of Our Lady of Mercy). Cankar is often considered the father of the modern Slovenian novel.…
Aleš Šteger: Odpusti (Absolution)
The latest addition to my website is Aleš Šteger's Odpusti (Absolution). This is a very funny book in the great East European tradition of using humour to damn the political…
Dušan Šarotar: Panorama (Panorama)
The latest addition to my website is Dušan Šarotar's Panorama (Panorama). This is a superb meditative novel, along the lines of the work of W G Sebald and Claudio Magris,…
Feri Lainšček: Namesto koga roža cveti (Instead Of Whom Does The Flower Bloom)
The latest addition to my website is Feri Lainšček's Namesto koga roža cveti (Instead Of Whom Does The Flower Bloom). Lainšček grew up in north-eastern Slovenia (then Yugoslavia) near Roma…