Ki od daleč prihajaš v mojo bližino

Ivan Slokar is a Slovenian from Trieste who teaches natural sciences at a secondary school, a man who seems to have everything one needs for a fulfilled, relatively happy life: a caring, loving family, a job in which colleagues respect him, and no money worries. Yet there is a shadow in his life, a dark stain from the past that begins to spread over the present, at first softly, like a quiet melody in the background, then like ever more deafening chords that cannot be ignored. Over a few days in April 2006, in long inner monologues, he mixes present and past, reality and imagination, the remembered and the forgotten, and his friend Oskar, declared mad for staying true to himself, speaks of a pain within everyone. The novel moves from Sosič's usual Karst villages into the city.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

345 pages in the original

Set in

Italy, 2006

First published

2012 by Študentska založba

Author's age

54 when first published

ISBN

9789612424800 (original)

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