Na Klancu

Gregor and Eva live with their daughters Brina and Višnja in a remote hamlet called Klanec, on a steep slope above the Kotel, a world of consumption and traffic noise. Gregor is ambitious and excited by technology and largely indifferent to everyday family life; Eva, an unemployed biologist, looks after the girls and teaches them to love and respect nature. Both had difficult childhoods, and their traumas follow them into adulthood and show in their ever colder relationship. Told through Eva's often anxious experience of Klanec, the novel follows the family as it falls apart and learns that they will have to leave their home. Weaving in motifs from Ivan Cankar's novel of the same name, it replaces the social hardship of his Klanec with environmental worries: waste, climate change, the search for work and a safe roof.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

254 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Nature (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia

First published

2022 by Cankarjeva založba

Author's age

35 when first published

ISBN

9789612825430 (original)