If I Only Had Time

Simon Bebler, a young student and amateur playwright who, as his friend the actress Violeta tells him, has left this world to live in an invented one, learns that he has cancer and only a year to live. He settles accounts with his girlfriends and his parents and decides to spend the time he would have had if he were healthy. Helped by an odd beggar, he travels to New York, where a luxurious but dangerous adventure awaits in a Fifth Avenue apartment belonging to a rich asset-stripper, Vincent Vega, in which things mysteriously vanish and reappear. A girl called Virgo comes and goes, secret agents appear, and the passive onlooker must finally decide whether to act. Characters borrowed from American films mix with real ones.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

460 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia, United States

First published

2009 by Cankarjeva založba

Author's age

64 when first published

ISBN

9789612316686 (original)

9780615905341 (Texture Press, United States)

9788193336007 (Attic Books, India)

9789617047240 (Sodobnost International, Slovenia)