Najlepša neznanka svetloba

Framed like a photograph, with a prologue, six chapters and an epilogue, the novel follows the photographer Filip, last surviving member of a once well-known photographic family. His grandfather was a portrait painter; his father turned the craft into photography as technology advanced at the start of the twentieth century, and both sons, Rudolf and Filip, carried it on. After the deaths of his brother and father Filip is alone. He keeps photographing the dead, a task forced on him all his life, but hopes one day to step from it into the light, and he thinks a great deal, as a photographer and as a philosopher, about light, its fading, and death. Through the fates of his father, his brother, his brother's woman, a sickly cousin and the aristocratic mother he never knew, he tries to free himself, while the Second World War looms.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

285 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

First published

2018 by Mladinska knjiga

Author's age

54 when first published

ISBN

9789610150268 (original)