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Jančar approaches Slovenian history through conflicting personal recollections. His novel shows how war takes control of private life. Kovačič follows childhood exile and resettlement in a new country. Pahor, a Slovenian writer from Trieste, represents minority experience and bears witness to Nazi camps. Blatnik’s short forms move from historical weight to the tensions of everyday communication.
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Five voices reconstruct the fate of the missing Veronika against the background of World War II.
Original title: To noč sem jo videl
Dalkey Archive Press
Translated by Michael Biggins
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Josef Erdman’s arrival in Maribor on the eve of war begins a tale of history’s gathering madness.
Original title: Severni sij
A former prisoner’s return to a concentration camp becomes a reckoning with memory and survival.
Original title: Nekropola
A child narrator describes his family’s expulsion from Switzerland and difficult resettlement in Slovenia.
Original title: Prišleki — prvi del
Very short stories draw tensions and misunderstandings out of everyday encounters.
Original title: Saj razumeš?
Stories explore the desire for intimacy and the difficulties of communication.
Original title: Zakon želje
The wanderer Johan Ot enters a world of plague, suspicion and violence where institutions strip him of control over his fate.
In occupied Maribor, love and old acquaintances are tested by Nazi terror and resistance.
Original title: In ljubezen tudi
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