Pobočje sončnega griča

An anonymous loner from the remote village of Dolska ves, where few manage to escape, studied in Ljubljana and settled for a while in the town of Krasta. After twenty years of loyalty to his firm his colleagues give him a landscape painting, which he names The Slope of the Sunny Hill. Its warm colours call up memories of the three women who marked his life: Frida, the fantasy of his youth who first introduced him to the secrets of physical love; Mija, a later, apparently platonic love; and Edit, a colleague whose affair with a younger man after he rejected her sets off his obsessive delusions. Guilt and paranoia unsettle his fragile inner world.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

195 pages in the original

Set in

Slovenia

First published

2010 by Litera

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9789616780322 (original)