I Saw Her That Night

Veronika Zarnik is a young, self-absorbed and eccentric woman from Ljubljana's bourgeoisie who cares mainly for her comfort and amusement, even in wartime. She never appears directly: five narrators who knew her, each continuing the story of the last, try to recall her. Her former lover, a Serbian cavalry officer of the royal Yugoslav army, remembers her from a prison camp in 1945; her frail old mother waits in terror and hope for her daughter to come home; a German army doctor tells of the war more than of her; the family's housekeeper finds herself at the centre of events; and a partisan who was once a farmhand and secretly longed for her has the last word. The novel draws on the true story of a couple who owned Strmol Castle.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

189 pages in the original

Genres

War, Historical, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia, 1930s–1945

First published

2010 by Modrijan

Author's age

62 when first published

ISBN

9789612414580 (original)

9781564789976 (Dalkey Archive Press, United States)

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