Is the book you’re holding in your hands a novel? Yes. Is it an adventure story? Definitely. Is it a love story? No, it’s a story about a complicated yet dangerously beautiful friendship.  Is it a philosophical novel? Yes, but it’s accessible even to the average reader. Is it suspenseful? It is a page turner! Is it a book dealing with spirituality? Definitely, but not in the usual way. Is it Paolo Coelho? Far from it. Is it a serious novel? Very much so.  Is it a work of art? Most critics claim that it is. Is it a work of imagination or a report of real events? Both. Is it a book about the meaning of life? Most readers say that it is. Is it the sort of book that readers keep on their bedside table? Most of them do, for a number of years.  Is it the book that tries to answer the question “Who am I?” Yes, but with surprising results.  How popular is The Sorcerer’s Apprentice? In Slovenia, a Central-European country of two million people where the novel was first published, the sales of eight editions have reached more than 65,000 copies. In terms of population and prospective readers, that would mean over 11 million copies in the US, 2 million in the UK, 2 million in France, 2 million in Italy, 3 million in Germany, 4.4 million in Russia, 10 million in the Spanish speaking world, 40 million in India, and over 50 million copies in China! Worth reading? See for yourself.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Literature & Fiction

Flisar, Evald

Genre Fiction

Texture Press

A small family moves to the Slovenian countryside to restore a large, dilapidated farmhouse. Then the relatives arrive—Cousin Vladimir, a former partisan writing his memoirs, Uncle Vinko, an accountant who would like to raise the largest head of cabbage on record, Aunt Mara, and her illegitimate daughter Elisabeth, bent on losing her virginity. And finally Uncle Schweik, the accidental hero who everyone assumed was dead. Flisar handles the absurd events that follow like no other writer, making the smallest incidents rich in meaning.

Three Loves, One Death (Peter Owen World Series: Slovenia)

Literary

Peter Owen Publishers

My Father's Dreams: A Tale of Innocence Abused

McConnell-Duff, Alan

Texture Pr

Available for the first time in English translation, the best-selling Tales of Wandering is the sort of collection of stories that changes lives forever. These are the tales of an inveterate traveler, a Slovenian, whose special gift is to allow the reader to see life with fresh eyes. Evald Flisar has a devoted following in his native Slovenia, and many readers say that reading his work was a watershed moment in their lives. Reading _Tales of Wandering_, it is easy to see why.

Tales of Wandering

THE DIARIES OF ADAM AND EVE (in the original title Nevidni otrok the second word means both "child" and "island", with both applying in a number of meanings to central characters, who happen to be called Adam and Eve) is one of the most unusual and complex novels by the world-renowned Evald Flisar (242 translations of his work are available in 40 languages). It is one of the most unusual "love stories" in the treasury of world literature, claims Alenka Urh, the author of the Afterword published with the novel (she is currently President of the Slovenian Society of Literary Critics). Adam and Eve are a young couple who desperately want a child, but cannot have one, because one of them is infertile. Unable to communicate openly, they secretly read each other's diaries, and in their need to have a child finally invent one. The problem is that each invents a different one and that by clinging to their images, living in a world that is reality and fiction at the same time, their lives take a turn for disaster. The novel requires dedicated reading, but is endowed with many layers of meaning, open to many interpretations, rich with unexpected twists and turns, forcing us to doubt the certainty of what we perceive as reality.

The Diaries of Adam and Eve