Name: Konec. Znova
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ISBN: 9789612840792

The End. And Again

Konec. Znova

Dino Bauk

Genre:: Novel
Year of publication:: 2015
Number of pages:: 184
Rights sold:: Austria (Hollitzer Verlag), Croatia (HENA COM), Italy (Bottega Errante), Serbia (Rende), UK (Istros Books)
Available reading materials:: English pdf, German pdf

The End. And Again is a novel about war, romance and rock ’n’ roll. It takes us back to Ljubljana and the Balkans in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Told through the reminiscences of bandmates Peter, Goran and Denis, and of eternal runaway Mary, the novel offers a beguiling reworking of the history of the break-up of Yugoslavia. One fateful bus journey, many years ago, young missionary Mary fell in love with Denis. But their love story was cut short when Mary was made to leave the country for violating the Mormon code and Denis was cast from his peaceful life in Ljubljana, exiled and sent tumbling into the ravages of the Balkan war. Peter, Goran and Mary’s memories of the years when their interests revolved more around music and love than the turbulent political situation that derailed their lives intersect with those of Denis in the maelstrom of war. A lack of any meaningful resolution to their mutual story haunts them all and forces them to search for a different end(ing). (And) Again.

“Runaway Mormon Mary was all that he was interested in at that moment, although the Berlin Wall had already fallen, dead students lay at the Gate of Heavenly Peace, and the eastern part of his country shivered ominously.”

Best Debut Award of the Slovenian Book Fair 2015

Longlisted for the Kresnik Award for best novel of the year 2016

Bauk’s novel throbs with the wounds of his generation and at the same time tells an intense, dazzling story of love and friendship.

Kreuzer Magazin
An exciting and remarkable portrait of a generation, a book about books and what they can do to and with people.

Kleine Zeitung
... Universally recommended for its captivating examination of the common human condition with a writerly intelligence and an all too rare blend of speaking to the mind as well as to emotions.

Dnevnik
Although the novel is the author’s debut, it doesn’t betray this – not with its thoughtful discussion of what caused the rebellious generation of the 1980s to have bureaucratized itself, to have capitulated and eschewed its ideals, nor by its skilful composition.

Mladina

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