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In/Half (2013)
European Union Prize for Literature 2016
published in Amsterdam (De Geus, 2017), London (Oneworld, 2018), Athens (Vakxikon, 2022), ...
In the near future, the world has been torn apart. America is in anarchy, with drones enforcing restrictions on public assembly. Europe is fighting China in Africa, and all news of the conflict are tightly controlled. Postmodern Japan, beset by serial killers and radioactivity, struggles to rekindle the memory of history. Three characters - an addict theater director staging a play through heartbreak, a war minister whose son has joined the front lines, and a poet drawing a dangerously large crowd to her reading - are navigating an uncertain, unknowable world through different political landscapes, literary styles, and conceptions of the self to reach the depths of what makes us human.
Who can mend the tear?
Published by the prestigious Oneworld (multiple Booker Prize winner) and translated by Jason Blake, In/Half is available in English!
Coming from a small country with a lesser-known culture, and without access to big media outlets, getting In/Half noticed has been a challenge.
In/Half has earned recognition, including the European Union Prize for Literature and a longlisting for the International Dublin Literary Award. It's been praised by Publisher’s Weekly, Complete Review, and World Literature Today, with an excerpt featured on Literary Hub. You can even find it at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on Manhattan’s 5th Avenue!
But ultimately, whether In/Half finds its audience is up to readers like you. If you’re intrigued, if you believe in supporting writers and diverse voices, I invite you to explore In/Half. And if you do not think it is the right book for you, that’s perfectly fine. As the artist Ulay wisely said, “Some can’t, some won’t, and that is all there is to it.”
“In/Half is an overwhelming vision of the future ... and shows an exceptional writer at work.”
“A novel that repays careful reading for some brilliant set-pieces, for its believably flawed characters, and for its bone-dry, even cynical, wit.”
“Sustains its ghostly, ethereal tone and will be appreciated by readers looking for a mind-bending puzzle.”
Pixels (2021)
What is free will in a world designed by AI?
Pixels, written during the lockdowns, imagines an AI, not benevolent, not malevolent, but simply creative – using human lives as the medium for its grand artistic vision. It manipulates our urges, our memories, our very understanding of reality.
One artist suspects the truth, and embarks on a dangerous quest to understand the AI’s inscrutable plan by playing along. But is the artist really a player, or just another pixel in the artwork?
The Ice Saints (2023)
A poor boy wants to enter the high society, but cannot find one in the aftermath of the financial crisis, so we follow him on his journeys through literature, France, drugs, religion, sex, and political action, as he loses what little he started with.
This deceptively simple realist narrative draws upon the canon of European literature and cultural history to interrogate (and condemn) class, exploitation and naked self-interest masquerading as lofty ambition, painting a portrait of an age where the price of belonging can only be paid with cash.
A hefty entry to the metarealist novel.
Jasmin B. Frelih (1986)
A child swallowed by books, Slovenia, and New York, I have been fighting hard to stay afloat, and now I can hold my breath under water for a very long time.
