Zahod jame

Ivan is an old miner who cannot escape the memory of a work accident in which his best friend Lojze lost his life. The past catches up with him when Lojze's son Denis comes to see him. Born after his father's death, Denis never knew him and wants above all to understand why he died. The answers turn out to be far less simple than they first seemed. Together the two men travel back into the past and come to know both the glory and the misery of the miner's trade, drawing closer to the circumstances that led to the tragedy, in a story about the working class that the coming of capitalism pushed to the margins of Slovenian society.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

281 pages in the original

Set in

Slovenia

First published

2012 by Goga

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9789612770334 (original)