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Triger
“Trigger” (title translated by AI)
Davorin Lenko (born 1984)
English editions
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Aleksandra is a typical literary escapist, and reading crime and horror has led her to a fascination with serial killers. Her relationship with Adam is unsatisfying, and after a bizarre sexual encounter they split; then she meets Sem, and with him everything is different, her position in the relationship changed from the start. Later she lives alone but keeps returning to him. Meanwhile a long manifesto by a killer, titled Cona (The Zone), circulates on the internet, a novel within the novel. Aleksandra immerses herself in it with passion and becomes a known authority on it, and in time she begins visiting its author, the double murderer Darijan Urh, in a psychiatric hospital. The story is told through explicit sexual fetishes linked to violent sex.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 295 pages in the original
- Genres
- Crime (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2021 by LUD Literatura
- Author's age
- 37 when first published
- ISBN
9789617017922 (original)