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20 46 y separately published work icon The Childhood of Jesus J. M. Coetzee , ( trans. Tina Vrščaj with title Jezusovo otroštvo ) Ljubljana : Cankarjeva Zalozba , 2014 Z1908494 2013 single work novel (taught in 2 units) ''The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me—please take it on faith—this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without forethought, without afterthought, all will become clear to you, as clear as day, or so I believe. Therefore: will you accept this child as yours?'

David is a small boy who comes by boat across the ocean to a new country. He has been separated from his parents, and has lost the piece of paper that would have explained everything. On the boat a stranger named Simón takes it upon himself to look after the boy.

On arrival they are assigned new names, new birthdates. They know little Spanish, the language of their new country, and nothing about its customs. They have also suffered a kind of forgetting of old attachments and feelings. They are people without a past.

Simón's goal is to find the boy's mother. He feels sure he will know her when he sees her. And David? He wants to find his mother too but he also wants to understand where he is and how he fits in. He is a boy who is always asking questions.

The Childhood of Jesus is not like any other novel you have read. This beautiful and surprising fable is about childhood, about destiny, about being an outsider. It is a novel about the riddle of experience itself.' (Publisher's blurb)
43 18 y separately published work icon Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee , ( trans. Jure Potokar with title V pričakovanju barbarov ) Ljubljana : Cankarjeva Zalozba , 2005 6303247 1980 single work novel 'How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid? Shall I tell you what I sometimes wish? I wish that these barbarians would rise up and teach us a lesson, so that we would learn to respect them.

After twenty years of peacefully running one of the Empire’s settlements, a magistrate takes pity on an enemy barbarian who has been tortured. He enters into an awkward intimate relationship with her, and then is himself imprisoned as an enemy of the state.

Waiting for the Barbarians is a disturbing political fable about oppression, the fraught desire for reparation, and about living with a troubled conscience under an unjust regime.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 5 y separately published work icon Obiranje limon Jože Žohar , Ljubljana : Cankarjeva Zalozba , 2004 Z1833426 2004 selected work poetry
12 45 y separately published work icon Death of a River Guide Richard Flanagan , ( trans. Jure Potokar with title Smrt rečnega vodnika ) Ljubljana : Cankarjeva Zalozba , 2003 Z822275 1994 single work novel (taught in 5 units) 'Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning. Beset by visions at once horrible and fabulous, he relives not just his own life but that of his family and forebears. As the river rises his visions grow more turbulent, and in the flood of the past Aljaz discovers the soul history his country'. (Source: Trove)
1 y separately published work icon Moderni klasiki Ljubljana : Cankarjeva Zalozba , 2001 8058232 2001 series - publisher novel
27 11 y separately published work icon In the Heart of the Country J. M. Coetzee , ( trans. Urban Vovk et. al. )agent with title V srcu dežele ) Ljubljana : Cankarjeva Zalozba , 2001 6204795 1977 single work novel
4 2 y separately published work icon The Mystery of Swordfish Reef Arthur W. Upfield , ( trans. Unknown with title Glava v mrezi Krimi ) Ljubljana : Cankarjeva Zalozba , 1980 Z101751 1939 single work novel crime mystery detective 'An intriguing case for Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte begins on a calm October day in an Australian seaside town. Three men set out to sea for a day's fishing...and do not return. Despite intensive searches, no trace of the men or their boat is found until, weeks later, a passing trawler hauls in a gruesome catch - the head of one of the missing fishermen. It is quite clear that its owner was murdered with a pistol bullet. But by whom and why is for Bony to find out.' - (back cover, 1983 Arkon Paperback).
15 181 y separately published work icon Riders in the Chariot Patrick White , ( trans. Janko Moder with title Na Ognjenem Vozu ) Ljubljana : Cankarjeva Zalozba , 1974 Z470801 1961 single work novel (taught in 10 units)

'Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu, Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. In the wilderness she stumbles upon an Aboriginal artist and a Jewish refugee. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. In a world of pervasive evil, all four have been independently damaged and discarded. Now in one shared vision they find themselves bound together, understanding the possibility of redemption.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Vintage ed.).
15 101 y separately published work icon Power Without Glory : A Novel in Three Parts Frank Hardy , ( trans. Unknown with title Moč brez slave ) Ljubljana : Cankarjeva Zalozba , 1961 Z512009 1950 single work novel (taught in 5 units)

'This is a tale of corruption stretching from street corner SP bookmaking to the most influential men in the land - and the terrible personal cost of the power such corruption brings. John West rose from a Melbourne slum to dominate Australian politics with bribery, brutality and fear. His attractive wife and their children turned away from him in horror. Friends dropped away. At the peak of his power, surrounded by bootlickers, West faced a hate-filled nation - and the terrible loneliness of his life. Was John West a real figure? For months during the post-war years, an Australian court heard evidence in a sensational libel action brought by businessman John Wren's wife. After a national uproar which rocked the very foundations of the Commonwealth, Frank Hardy was acquitted. This is the novel which provoked such intense uproar and debate across the nation. The questions it poses remain unanswered…' (Publication summary)
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