I Saw Her That Night

Drago Jancar, Michael Biggins

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English

Dalkey Archive Press
24 May 2016

Anthologies (non-poetry); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Slovenian Literature Series

I Saw Her That Night, a love story in time of war, is a novel about a few years in the life and mysterious disappearance of Veronika Zarnik, a young bourgeois woman from Ljubljana, sucked into the whirlwind of a turbulent period in history. We follow her story from the perspective of five different characters, who also talk about themselves, as well as the troubled Slovenian times before and during World War II; times that swallowed, like a Moloch, not only the people of various beliefs involved in historical events, but also those who lived on the fringes of tumultuous events, which they did not even fully comprehend-they only wanted to live. But ""only"" to live was an illusion: it was a time when, even under the seemingly safe and idyllic shelter of a manor house in Slovenia, it was impossible to avoid the rushing train of violence.

Drago Janar won both the Best Foreign Book Prize (Prix du meilleur livre etranger) and The Kresnik Award for I Saw Her That Night. Often described as ""the seismologist of a chaotic history,"" the celebrated Slovenian novelist has received a number of other honors, including the European Prize for Literature (Prix Europeen de Litterature).

By: Drago Jancar
Translated by: Michael Biggins
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9781564789976
ISBN 10: 1564789977
Series: Slovenian Literature Series
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 24 May 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Drago Jancar was born in 1948 in Maribor, Slovenia, and is one of the best-known Slovenian writers at home and abroad. After studying law, he worked as a journalist, editor, and a freelance writer, and traveled to both the US and Germany. In 2011 he was awarded the European Prize for Literature. He now lives in Ljubljana.

Reviews for I Saw Her That Night

Friendship and betrayal, hope and guilt and the torment of remembering are Jancar s themes. His liquid balancing of illusion and reality sustains this kaleidoscopic, communal war novel, which moves relentlessly towards an obvious yet symbolic act of violence. - Irish Times