• Publisher: Beletrina
• 220 pages
• Author: Katarina Marinčič
• Original title: Ženska s srebrnim očesom

One summer Saturday, Danijel, a man in his early fifties, cycles up a moun- tain pass. In the mountain hut where he stays the night he manages – at least so he believes - to establish a genuine connection with the locals. Their encounter is like he likes things to be, he enjoys observing people, think- ing about them, he also likes a chat but at all times makes sure he keeps his distance as contemplative solitude is for him one of the essences of his cycling trips. The following day, on Sunday afternoon, the area around the pass is struck by a storm. Danijel is absolutely sure that just moments before the storm he had been talking to an elderly woman. During the storm the woman disappears. He inquires worriedly about her with the locals but they insist that there had never been an elderly woman.

Searching for ‘the lady that vanishes’ pushes Danijel into a solitude very different from his usual dreaminess: more demanding, deeper, more mys- terious, humbling and at the same time elevating. The question of whose feelings he can rely on becomes more than merely an issue of tangibility.

About the author

Katarina Marinčič

Katarina Marinčič (1968) is a writer, literary historian and translator. She is the author of novels Tereza, Rose Garden (Rožni vrt), Disguised Harmony (Prikrita harmonija – winner of the 2002 Kresnik Award for best Slovenian novel

of the year) and According to Them (Po njihovih besedah – winner of the 2015 Kritiško Sito Award for best book of the year) and a collection of

short stories About Three (O treh – winner of the 2007 Fabula Award for the best short story collection). The novel Disguised Harmony has been published in German, the novel According to Them in Romanian, and the collection of stories About Three in Macedonian and French. She has also contributed numerous forewords to Slovene publications of French classics and

has translated from the French into Slovene Paul Veyne’s work When Our World Became Christian: 312 - 394 and Marcel Proust’s collection of early work Pleasures and Days.