Slovenia won independence in 1991, following a ten day war with the rest of former Yugoslavia. Now, after decades of domination, the nation's rich literature is able to flourish again. Five of Slovenia's most respected writers are introduced, from Jancar, the former dissident already widely read in continental Europe, to gifted new writers. This collection consolidates diverse, original, and unforgettable themes. Jancar's chilling story of the Slovenian businessman lost and victimized in Harlem should clear the area of ...
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Slovenia won independence in 1991, following a ten day war with the rest of former Yugoslavia. Now, after decades of domination, the nation's rich literature is able to flourish again. Five of Slovenia's most respected writers are introduced, from Jancar, the former dissident already widely read in continental Europe, to gifted new writers. This collection consolidates diverse, original, and unforgettable themes. Jancar's chilling story of the Slovenian businessman lost and victimized in Harlem should clear the area of tourists; an instructor at a Japanese tea ceremony is challenged (and sickened) by an American's $100,000 bet on a shaggy caterpillar. All of the stories share an air of premonition and violence, perhaps
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