For the summer reading corner, i.e. the books that we will take with us on vacation, we have prepared exceptional books that will impress even the most demanding readers. So which books should we read this summer?
Boštjan Gorenc, Slovenian classics 1
Boštjan Gorenc - Pajama is known in literary circles primarily as a translator - his translations of the series about Captain Gatnik, the translation of the hits The Fault in Our Stars, Čudo, Eleanor and Park and Songs of Ice and Fire. In his book Slovenian classics, he reworked fifty Slovenian classics and their works - everything from Prešeren to Muca Copatarica - and interpreted them according to the times. And if we were dying of boredom while reading Slovenian literary classics at school, now we will be laughing with laughter.
Goran Vojnović, Figa
The novel Figa is a series of intertwining stories about Vesna and Safet, Jadran and Anja, and Aleksandar and Jana. But above all, about the Adriatic, which with the help of other stories makes up its own. He does not understand why Anja left their life together, why his grandfather Aleksandar left, allegedly with the help of a suspicious bottle of medicine, and why grandmother Jana is leaving, whose memories are increasingly fragmented, and her life is in the world of dementia. He tries to understand why his father Safet left, what silent disappointment his mother Vesna experienced and why she is so angry with his grandfather.
Miha Mazzini, The stars invite
Kaja thinks that she is an excellent singer. Therefore, despite the warnings of her friends and virtual boyfriend, who want to protect her from shame, she applies for a talent competition. An exciting and fun adventure, where we run into the traps of virtual reality, discover what the heroes really are. In the novel, we also encounter a lot of pop culture references and obsessions of modern consumer society. Miha Mazzini, an extremely prolific writer, screenwriter, director and columnist, received the Blue Bird Award 2016 at the Mladinska knjiga competition for his novel Zvezde vabijo.
Barbara Pešut, The first half - delicious quarters
Barbara Pešut's autobiography does not follow a chronological sequence that would try to encompass her life as a complete whole, but rather comes from the immediate moments in which the text is created. The author thus stops at the memories of the musical and literary past, love, special moments spent together, but also the illness, which again and again puts her on the edge. Barbara thus jumps "from light to dark, from healthy to sick, from colorful to gray, from 1 : 0 to 0 : 1, and without order", as she says.
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Emma Cline, The Girls: A Novel
With sharp precision and surprising psychological insight, Emma Cline's remarkable debut paints an indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and the moment in life when everything goes horribly wrong. One day Evie Boyd sees a group of girls in the park. She is instantly drawn to their freedom and their dangerous aura. Evie is quickly influenced by Suzanne, a charismatic older girl, and also becomes part of a soon-to-be infamous cult. Evie is desperate to be accepted. And as her obsession with Suzanne escalates, Evie doesn't realize she's getting closer and closer to unimaginable violence.
Stephen King, End of Watch: A Novel (The Bill Hodges Triology)
Here is the spectacular finale to the successful trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers – In End of Watch. The infernal "Mercedes Killer" sets up his enemies to commit suicide, and unless Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney figure out how to stop him, they themselves will fall victim to a diabolical plan. Revenge, crime and otherworldly powers - only Stephen King mixes it so perfectly.
Michael D'Antonio, The Truth About Trump
Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael D'Antonio, the book is based on exclusive interviews and extensive research. We follow Trump from his beginnings as a businessman to his presidential campaign. Along the way, D'Antonio charts his successes and failures, scandals and triumphs, and his constant pursuit of money and fame. There is no shortage of details about the origin of the Trump family's wealth.
Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
On a foggy summer night, eleven people - ten privileged and one lucky - take a private jet from Martha's Vineyards to New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane crashes into the ocean. The only survivors are the lucky Scott Burroughs and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of the family of an extremely rich and influential media mogul. The novel touches on questions of fate, human nature, and the inseparable ties that ultimately bind us into a whole.
