Sto let slepote

A novel about a century of life in the mining district of Zasavje, where the earth yielded coal and where the wounds of digging and exploitation are still healing. The twentieth century gave and took: peasants became proletarians, and the shafts provided but also swallowed houses, churches, fields and people. Mines opened and closed, and society, politics and the political system changed with them. Through the Knap family, who are born, vanish, move away and die while living as their times dictate, the book shows the whole range of human beliefs and emotions, the fight for rights that must be won each time, and how short the distance is from good to evil. Matija is blind from birth, yet over his hundred years he experiences every moment deeply and tells the story of his life and his place on his concertina, though few understand him.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

539 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia, 20th century

First published

2021 by Mladinska knjiga

Author's age

61 when first published

ISBN

9789610163077 (original)