The Assistant
The story of The Assistant takes place in a small township of Palánk in southern Slovakia, recovering after the trauma of WWII. The residents of Palánk do not dwell on the past, they fix their attention to the future. Life bursts out in this small town with all its might, tastes, colours and passion. The need to compensate […]
The Camp of Fallen Women
The novel The Camp of Fallen Women, in Orwellian style, depicts a cruel and grotesque image of the lives of people behind the Iron Curtain: the lives of Bratislava prostitutes who are sent by the communist authorities to the Nováke labor camp, a former Jewish concentration camp, for re-education. The novel, which was created based […]
In the Name of the Father
The novella In the Name of the Father is a probe into the life of a man of retirement age and his complicated family relationships. He is a man who is irresponsible and selfish with sadistic inclinations, the father of two adult sons who once was a son himself and is now telling his story. He has […]
Wolf’s Nights
In Wolf’s Nights, unsuccessful music student Rafael Meden, an organist and a sexton in a parish without a priest, indulges in drinking. At the same time he is more and more aware of the fact that the Catholic Church as a form of faith and spirituality is disintegrating and decaying and that he is completely […]
The Grain of Corn
After World War II, the Istrian woman Katina (main character of the novel Šavrinke) finds herself in prison in Pula. She is sentenced to one year of emprisonment, officially because of smuggling but the real reason lies in the fact that in spite of torturing she did not want to betray the people who secretly […]
Tereza
The novel Tereza (1989) spans over the period from the end of the 19th century to the 1920s, it takes place in Ljubljana that was gravely affected by an earthquake in 1895, in the Slovenian countryside and in Vienna. The author’s debut work was described as an attempt of a family or epochal novel. The story connects the […]
Heartspots
Zgodba pripoveduje o nepričakovanem ponovnem srečanju glavne osebe z zgodnjo, a zdaj nanovo oživljeno ljubeznijo, o odrešujoči spolnosti ter o novem urejevanju zadnjih let. Srčne pege so lahko berljiva pripoved o jesenskem cvetju in cvetenju, s poudarkom na jeziku in z voljo, da bi junak našel smisel in uresničenje dozorelega življenja.
Brought by the Fog
Katoliškega duhovnika Jona Urskega zaradi kršitve cerkvenega reda kazensko premestijo v Mokuš. Odmaknjen in zamočvirjen kraj je brez duhovnika, saj je prejšnji župnik umrl skrivnostne smeti. Cerkev je povsem zapuščena, prebivalci Mokuša, ki so izrazito vraževerni, pa so skrivnostno povezani z žensko, ki se jim prikazuje v različnih podobah. Gre za usodno žensko, lik iz […]
When Bats Dance with Angels
The main character of Čar’s debut novel Igra angelov in netopirjev – When Bats Dance with Angels is a priest, Father Faus whose more or less peaceful life is disrupted by a mysterious femme fatale Nasja. In the numbed inhabitants of a sleepy small town she arouses interest as well as reluctance. The priest together with other lost creatures quickly finds […]
The Last Temptation of Sergij
The Last Temptation of Sergij is a transitional novel set in the period after Slovenia gained independence in 1991. Contrary to the expectations of the intellectual elite and ordinary citizens, the birth pangs of the emerging state were so intense and unpredictable that, instead of a quick path to an orderly society and the elimination […]