I Saw Her That Night
Paperback
Series: Slovenian Literature
General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $15.95
ISBN13: 9781564789976
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: Feb 15 2016
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
I Saw Her That Night, a love story in time of war, is a novel about a few years in the life and mysterious disappearance of Veronika Zarnik, a young bourgeois woman from Ljubljana, sucked into the whirlwind of a turbulent period in history. We follow her story from the perspective of five different characters, who also talk about themselves, as well as the troubled Slovenian times before and during World War II; times that swallowed, like a Moloch, not only the people of various beliefs involved in historical events, but also those who lived on the fringes of tumultuous events, which they did not even fully comprehend-they only wanted to live. But only to live was an illusion: it was a time when, even under the seemingly safe and idyllic shelter of a manor house in Slovenia, it was impossible to avoid the rushing train of violence.
Drago Jančar won both the Best Foreign Book Prize (Prix du meilleur livre etranger) and The Kresnik Award for I Saw Her That Night. Often described as the seismologist of a chaotic history, the celebrated Slovenian novelist has received a number of other honors, including the European Prize for Literature (Prix Européen de Littérature).
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