It's Carnival time 2012, and the Slovenian city of Maribor is European Capital of Culture. In an attempt to maximize profit, local politicians and showman peddle every possible art form. Amidst the hype, dramatist Adam Bely and journalist Rosa Portero pursue a secret mission: to track down and overthrow the sinister 'octopus' of thirteen selected persons that control the city. On the way, they encounter a variety of important citizens, all entangled in a web of corruption and lies. In the tradition of Bulgakov, Gogol and Kafka, this is a debut novel filled with striking personae, haunting images and a grotesque plot. It proves, in the end, to be a journey into the heart of a European darkness.
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Ales Steger is a poet, essayist and novelist, writing in Slovenian. He belongs to a generation of writers that started to publish right after the fall of Yugoslavia. Steger's books have been translated into 16 languages and his poems appeared in internationally renowned magazines and newspapers, such as New Yorker, Die Zeit, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, TLS and many others. His English translation of Knjiga reci (Thee Book of Things) won two major U.S. translation awards (BTBA award and AATSEL). Ales received the title Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French State.
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