Papir, kamen, škarje

Simon is a primary-school geography teacher in his mid-forties, a loner who has never had a serious relationship and who hands out good marks in class with resignation; all his life, it turns out, he has avoided conflict. Only anger shakes him out of his emotional numbness, at a slow post-office clerk chatting on the phone, for instance. He looks for consolation and an excuse for the life he has in the past, in the happy years of primary school he spent with two friends, until a tragic event. When, thirty years later, an invitation to a class reunion brings him back to his home town, that event finally has its epilogue, in a story that swings between melancholy resignation and juicy cynicism.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

211 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia

First published

2016 by Litera

Author's age

35 when first published

ISBN

9789616949835 (original)