Zguba

Told as a diary covering two years, the novel follows Grega, a trainee lawyer, and his best friend Jaka, a philosopher and historian who hates the school system yet becomes a teacher of philosophy and history at a secondary school. Jaka is married to Vanja, whom he has known all his life; Grega meets Nina and moves in with her. At school Jaka faces bullying from the acting head teacher, a violent pupil who terrorises his classmates and an affair with a student. Around them runs a steady current of drinking, with friends or alone, along with sex, a shop robbery and a death that changes everything.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

297 pages in the original

Set in

Slovenia

First published

2001 by Mladinska knjiga

Author's age

34 when first published

ISBN

9788611159973 (original)

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