Summer is here, and for all of you who don't get to read as much as you'd like during the year, the beach is the right place to catch up. Find ideas for summer reading in our selection of 10 novelties that appeared on the shelves of Slovenian bookstores this year and are breaking reading records: from JK Rowling, who hid under a pseudonym, to Dan Brown, the new novel by the author Jej, moli , loves, the award-winning Slovenian women in Paris by Brina Svit and biographies of the famous director Emir Kusturica.
1. Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) – The Cuckoo's Calling
Youth book Publishing House, 500 pages, click to buy
JK Rowling, world famous author Harry Potter sagas, she wrote her first detective novel The Call of the Cuckoo under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. In this case, how the Sunday Times journalist discovered who is really hiding behind the pseudonym through mysterious tweets is similar to a detective story.
The stylistically and substantively refined novel intertwines several tense stories, the main one revolving around the detective and war veteran Cormoran Strik and his assistant Robin, who solve the suspicious death of a famous model in London and in the process cut into the nest of rich and successful Londoners. There is also good news for everyone who will be impressed by the book: JK Rowling has already released a sequel to the detective saga under the same pseudonym a few weeks ago with the title The Silkworm, which you can find here.
2. Dan Brown – Inferno
Youth Book Publishing House, 488 pages, click to buy
In the first week after the release of Brown's latest record-breaking hit Inferno, in all languages and versions (including electronic) more copies were sold than The Da Vinci Codes. Professor Robert Langdon wakes up in a hospital in the cradle of the Renaissance - Florence, not remembering how he got there and how the mysterious object ended up in his jacket. Together with a young doctor, they have to escape from ruthless pursuers who are out for their lives, and they also find themselves in Venice and Istanbul, and this time the solution to the riddle is hidden in a few verses of Dante's Divine Comedy. You can watch the trailer for the hit movie in the video below.
3. Gillian Flynn - She's gone
Youth Book Publishing House, 598 pages, click to buy
On the morning of their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunn's wife, Amy, disappears without a trace. The police suspect Nick, because Amy's friends claim that Amy was afraid of her husband and kept secrets from him. Nick finds himself in a real nightmare as someone keeps calling him on his cell phone and the police find hits on his computer that he claims are not his.
A novel that overturns our belief that we really know our partner and shows us that there are two sides to every story has captivated the world and was at the top of the New York Times bestseller list for 13 weeks. the film of the same name with Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike in the main roles (you can watch the trailer here).
4. John Green - The Fault in Our Stars
Youth Book Publishing House, 294 pages, click to buy
A novel by an American author who climbed practically all the best-seller lists and was translated Boštjan Gorenc-Pijama, is about Hazel, who was diagnosed with cancer at the age of thirteen. Nevertheless, she wants to live life like all her peers, and when she meets a boy with the same diagnosis in a self-help group, a love story begins to develop between them, which is not at all dramatic, but at the same time does not embellish anything.
5. Goran Tribuson - History of pornography
Youth book Publishing House, 592 pages, click to buy
The juicy and witty story is about the growing up of a group of friends in a small Croatian town, who at the beginning of the novel meet again after many years at the funeral of a mysterious high school classmate. The novel from the pen of the Croatian author, who also presented his book at the Ljubljana Consortium in May, directly describes how an entire generation changed in the 1960s.
6. Elizabeth L. Gilbert - The Seal of Creation
Youth book Publishing House, 552 pages, click to buy
Alma Whittaker is the main character of the novel written by the author of the bestseller Eat, pray, love. The plant lover was born in 1800 into one of the wealthiest families in the American West, and life brought her to tropical Tahiti, where an almost epic story of botanical research, love fulfillment, longing for friendship and the magic of knowledge unfolds.
7. Khaled Hosseini – And in the mountains it echoes
Youth Book Publishing House, 488 pages, click to buy
"Families are puzzles that we solve all our lives", says the American author of Afghan origin, who became famous for his novels Run for the dragon and A thousand glorious suns. In his third. in an extremely readable novel, he beautifully tells a moving story about the destinies of several families, stretching it geographically beyond the borders of Afghanistan all the way to Paris, and in time over several decades.
8. Brina Svit – Night in Reykjavik
Cankarjeva publishing house, 160 pages, click to buy
For her fifth novel, Night in Reykjavik, which she wrote in French, the Slovenian writer Brina Svit, who has lived in Paris since 1980, received Madeleine Zepter European Literary Award. Lisbeth Sorel's story is the story of the longest night on the island of fire and ice, when an Icelander decides to pay a man she barely knows in Buenos Aires to spend the night with her.
9. Emil Kusturica - Where am I in this story?
Cankarjeva Založba, 456 pages, click to buy
The Serbian director, who can boast of a bunch of film awards, including a Golden Lion, two Golden Palms and a Silver Bear, takes us through his unusual life in the book. From the descriptions of his childhood in Sarajevo, when he first came into concrete contact with film art while throwing coal in the basement of the Sarajevo Cinematheque, to studying in Prague and establishing himself on the Yugoslavian and global film scene, when life finally led him to a prestigious teaching position places on Columbia University in New York.
10. James Bowen – Stray Cat Bob
Youth book Publishing House, 214 pages, click to buy
A true story about a stray cat and a street musician in London, which has been on the best-seller lists for two years, can now move us in Slovenian as well. James, who as a former heroin addict was used to living hand-to-mouth, his life changes when he finds an injured kitten Bob, with whom he forms a special bond, thanks to which he finds himself again and turns his life in a different, right direction. You can also see how James and Bob became famous here.
