Škrbine

A string of fragments of contemporary life, held together by the birth of a book, and of a child whose part in the story is still undefined. It begins when he, a Slovenian translator in precarious work and a potential writer, meets her, Klara, a Catalan architect with a prison past who works now and then as a tourist guide. They meet in scattered places: streets and squares, parks, buildings, bars and city transport in Barcelona, Prague, Vienna and Ljubljana, but most often communicate through laptop screens and text messages. Their inner dialogues and notes show how differently they experience the same event. At her instruction he researches the life of his mysterious grandmother Vera, while she connects him, enigmatically, with her late father, a writer who never was.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

249 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Spain, Czechia, Austria, Slovenia

First published

2020 by Založba /*cf.

Author's age

46 when first published

ISBN

9789612571269 (original)