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The Woman With a Silver Eye

Ženska s srebrnim očesom

Katarina Marinčič

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Genre:: Novel
Year of publication:: 2022
Number of pages:: 220
Rights available:: world
Available reading materials:: English sample translation

One summer Saturday, Danijel, a man in his early fifties, cycles up a mountain pass. In the mountain mountain hut where he stays the night he manages – at least so he believes - to establish a genuine connection with the locals. Their encounter is just as he likes things to be; he enjoys observing people, thinking about them, and he also likes to chat but he always makes sure to keep his distance, after all contemplative solitude is one of the essential components of his cycling trips. The following day, on Sunday afternoon, the area around the mountain pass is struck by a storm. Danijel is absolutely sure that just moments before the storm he was talking to an elderly woman. During the storm the woman disappears. Worried, he enquires about her with the locals but they insist that there had never been a woman matching Danijel’s description.
Searching for 'the lady that vanished' pushes Danijel into a solitude very different from his usual dreaminess: more demanding, deeper, more mysterious, humbling and at the same time elevating. The question of whose feelings he can rely on becomes more than merely an issue of tangibility. As he grapples with the intangibility of memory, the question of how far Danijel can trust his own judgement, and the assertions of the people around him, becomes all important.

I don’t think it’s important that I am liked by everyone. What is important, however, is that, to use Balzac’s phrase, the ingenious reader, even if with lesser affection, reads my book and follows it. – from an interview with Katarina Marinčič

Shortlisted for the Kresnik Award for best novel of the year 2023

A meticulous novel about the power of the unconscious and the contrast between the city and rural remoteness.

Bukla
Despite its relative brevity, Katarina Marinčič’s The Woman With a Silver Eye subsumes a multitude of registers and discourses, from the literary to the poetic, from the colloquial, the cerebral to the vulgar, all of them equally convincing. The structure is clearly thought out, and the style is effective and clear. In 150 pages we encounter crime, satire, horror and psychological novels.

Radio Slovenia

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