Name: Karantena
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ISBN: 9789612847326

Quarantine

Karantena

Alojz Ihan

Genre:: Novel
Year of publication:: 2022
Number of pages:: 436
Rights available:: world
Available reading materials:: English sample translation

The term ‘quarantine’ originates from the Venetian Republic when, during the plague, boats were made to wait offshore for forty days and were only allowed to sail into port if no one on board fell sick during this period. Quarantine takes place in the first half of the year 2020, when the shock of the outbreak of COVID-19 in China was at its greatest. Widespread confusion, caution and fear, the changing social norms, the rampant exploitation of the crisis for the redistribution of power and the corrupt battles, waged for profit, provide the background to this story about three generations of the same family, each enclosed within walls of silence and their own emotional quarantines.
In this moving novel, Alojz Ihan considers the various notions of human quarantine, presenting us with lonely people who wait in silence; not knowing whether their painful situations will ever come to an end, whether their inner truths will ever be revealed. When an estranged family must come together to help their mother, who is suffering from dementia, each member of the family has to face their own fears, and work to break down the walls put up by previous generations. Paradoxically, it is the pandemic and its strict quarantine rules that forces the family to close the distance between them and finally shed their problems.

“Every human catastrophe reshuffles the cards. The winners are those who manage to grab the most power for themselves amidst the confusion and ruins. It is ultimately about domination and, like any disaster, the pandemic also became a power struggle, an attempt to redistribute influence and wealth.”

I enjoy the breadth of his thoughts and reflections that spread from our innermost lives to broad social and cultural horizons.

Miran Možina

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