Andrej Blatnik

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Proměny kůží

Following on from his short story collection, You Do Understand?, is this expansive collection of sixteen tales about "urban nomads" lost in a labyrinth of pop culture: "We go to the movies. We read books. We listen to music. No harm in that, but it's not real." A best-seller in Eastern Europe, Law of Desire is Blatnik at the height of his powers. He is one of the most respected and internationally relevant post-Yugoslav authors writing today.

Law of Desire

Sylvia Plath

Stekleni zvon

Drago Jančar

Brane Gradisnik

Jani Virk

A collection of stories by five Slovenian writers. In one, set during World war II, a prisoner contemplates death on the way to a concentration camp. In another, set in New York, a salesman is beaten and robbed while trying to pick up a woman.

Contemporary Slovenian Short Stories

The Day Tito Died

Stories by a Slovenian writer. In His Mother's Voice, a boy sees a movie on a killer who mimics a woman's call to lure her son to his death. The boy goes home, it is dark, his mother calls and the boy reaches for an axe. In Isaac, a death camp deportee attempts an escape from a train.

Skinswaps

Partly parables, partly fairy tales, You Do Understand is a comedy of errors for a species of talkers who’ve never learned to listen. This collection of sharp, spare, occasionally absurd, cruel, touching, and yet always generous short-short fictions addresses the fundamental difficulty we have in making the people we love understand what we want and need. Demonstrating that language and intimacy are as much barriers between human beings as ways of connecting them, Andrej Blatnik here provides us with a guided tour of the slips, misunderstandings, and blind alleys we each manage to fall foul of on a daily basis—no closer to understanding the motives of our families, friends, lovers, or coworkers than we are those of a complete stranger . . . or, indeed, our own.

Andrej Blatnik

Books

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