Vélika vojna
Vélika vojna je epsko velik, a tudi sodoben roman o največjem zgodovinskem preobratu na začetku dvajsetega stoletja. Ne gre le za portret izrednega števila človeških usod, temveč za prepričljivo sliko zloma upanja v srečno prihodnost človeštva. Sredi tega pretresljivega dogajanja se nizajo mikavne epizode o nečem, kar je resnično in neverjetno, izmišljeno in preživeto; zmagoslavje čustev […]
Ervin in norci
Ervin in norci so nadaljevanje romana Polovnjak, s katerim predstavljata pomensko in oblikovno celoto. Roman se vrtinči okoli nasprotja Normalno/Noro. Avtor z genialnimi zasuki v grotesknih prigodah gospoda Lakošte, ki ponekod zdrsne v tragikomičnost, spretno odkriva meje človekove svobode in raziskuje posledice izbrane poti. Ob tem zagovarja hipotezo, da je zavestna izbira nesreče edina možnost, s katero […]
The Fifth Boat
A tale of twelve-year-old Jarka who lives with her very young mother in the suburbs, a woman with little interest in being a mother and only a teenager herself when her daughter was born. Given neither love nor attention, Jarka must look after herself and spends many long hours alone in her flat or wandering aimlessly around the […]
Mocking Desire
Ko gre Gregor Gradnik na enoletno izmenjavo kot učitelj kreativnega pisanja iz srednje-evropske, nedavno komunistične Slovenije v Ameriko, se njegovo življenje postavi na glavo. Ne le zaradi krute ameriške realnosti, s katero se sooči v vročih karnevalskih nočeh New Orleansa, ne le zaradi čudaštva profesorja Blaumanna, ki piše nikoli zaključeno delo o melanholiji, ne le […]
My Name is Damjan
Damian sits in the self-help group of troubled teenage boys and girls and finally tells them and us the story of his bitter-sweet life. His path of searching for his true self and love begins with the change of his name and continues through conflicts within the family and therapy sessions with his psychologist. Actually […]
Alexander and Death
The novel Aleksandar i smrtta – Alexander and Death takes the highest place in Macedonian contemporary fiction. It is a great work of art with high aspirations and with an ambitious, major theme. It is a novel about the drama and the tragedy of a genius, who imprints this drama, this genius and tragedy irrevocably onto the life […]
Excercises for Ibn Pajko
In the last ten years, Olivera Nikolova created several notable accomplishments in fiction, among which Vežbi za Ibn Pajko – Excercises for Ibn Pajko takes a special place. This is a book which ensures that man is a mystical, secretive and exciting creature that hides desires, joys and sadness deeply inside, and these are all an absolute constant regardless […]
The Traveller
Hiša mrtvih vonjav
Nothing’s Lost
Saltykov, the hero of Alexander Kabakov’s novel Nothing’s Lost, is a mature man thinking back over his long life – from his childhood under Stalin spent in a small town and his youth as a trend-setter in Moscow during the Thaw till the present day in a capital where sweet freedom went hand in hand with […]