Name: Ki od daleč prihajaš v mojo bližino
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You Who Come To Me From Afar

Ki od daleč prihajaš v mojo bližino

Marko Sosič

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Genre:: Novel
Year of publication:: 2012
Number of pages:: 345
Rights available:: world
Available reading materials:: Spanish sample translation, Italian sample translation

The main character of this novel, Ivan Slokar, is a member of the Slovenian minority in the Italian city of Trieste, a professor of biology and a man who seemingly has everything a person needs to lead a happy, fulfilled life. However, there is a shadow in his life, a dark spot from the past that begins to loom over his present. Trieste and the border villages of the Trieste Karst, Italy, form the discreetly drawn, but defining background to this fictional world and its protagonists. This is no coincidence - together with its socio-political historical connotations, this disputed region embodies an issue that consumes Sosič: that of the individual’s identity in a world that is controlled, albeit covertly, by antagonistic, aggressive social forces.
You Who Come To Me From Afar is a masterfully written story of suppressed pain, taking the protagonist back through the fragments of memories, visions, hallucinations and dreams to an event that scarred him and his family. From the multi-ethnic present reality of Trieste, the novel stretches back more than a decade, to the years of the Balkan war, the atrocities and intolerances of which are still present. The novel, which avoids any ideological declarations, carries a message of humanism, telling us not to shut ourselves off from the pain of others, but to enter it with compassion.

Shortlisted for the Kresnik Award for best novel of the year 2013

Shortlisted for the Kritiško sito Award for best book of the year 2013

You Who Come To Me From Afar is a true masterpiece, a novel that at once seems to drive the reader away by disturbing their inner peace while seizing their attention so completely that it is impossible to put it down without finishing it.

Dnevnik
A lyrical, delicate and dazzling novel on the darkness of the soul.

Bukla
The new novel by Marko Sosič retains all characteristics of his earlier works – intense feelings of longing, confrontations with evil, the past intruding on the present, reality intertwined with dreams etc. – but adds another dimension.

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