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In Prekmurje, among vineyards, a river and a small town, the successful winegrower Cveto Golja learns that Liza, a Russian former bar dancer who moved to his estate six years ago, is pregnant. Overjoyed, he buys a round for the drinkers at the village inn, who promptly sow the seed of doubt: perhaps the child is not his. Golja hires a hopeless detective, buys a pistol and chases his suspect through the woods, watched by the narrator, an old school friend of Golja's who is hiding there with his own lover. Around them a rural comedy plays out with a forgetful priest, a crafty innkeeper, a pompous policeman and a psychiatrist, alongside two other couples being tested.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

189 pages in the original

Genres

Satire, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia

First published

2007 by Litera

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9789616604192 (original)

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