Maja Gal Štromar: “FEMME AILLEURS”

  “Au cimetière Père-Lachaise, j’ai versé de l’eau et disposé des fleurs dans un vase céramique. Une semaine après, je suis revenue voir leur tombe où, horrifiée, j’ai retrouvé le vase éclaté en deux morceaux, ouvert comme une coquille sur le rocher. J’avais tout d’abord pensé à un acte vandale mais un instant après, j’ai … Read more

Think of Me in the Good Times

The novel Think of Me in the Good Times was published in the original Slovene in 2011 by Mladinska Knjiga, the largest publishing house in Slovenia and received exceptional reviews. It has been translated into in Croatian and Italian. This short novel is the kind of rich and profound writing that delivers invincible twists and insights throughout the storyline. In terms of genre, it could be placed within the so called I-Novel (Shishōsetsu), highly regarded in Japan, where the events in the story correspond to events in the author’s life, in this case the death of her father.