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Čmrljev žleb

Bumblebee Gully

When a body is discovered deep under the snow in an idyllic ski village, an avalanche of secrets is unleashed revealing that no one is as innocent as they seem.

Year of publication: 2022
No. of pages: 232
Dimensions: 13 × 20 cm

When a body is discovered deep under the snow in an idyllic ski village, an avalanche of secrets is unleashed revealing that no one is as innocent as they seem. Especially the main character Vera, the vital and determined, but also lofty, calculating and untouchable ninety-year-old owner of the family hotel, without whom nothing happens in Strmčnik. The carefully concealed conflicts characterizing the relationships of the of the villagers and are gradually coming to the fore also go back several generations. Thus is no surprise that even the police inspector leading the murder case is actually more interested in power games from half a century ago than in a fresh corpse. Through the relationships of its heroes and heroines, the novel Čmrljev zleb opens the wounds of half-past history and shows that everyone has a past that they cannot escape. Just like in Strmčnik, no one can escape Vera’s tentacles.

Agata Tomažič (foto Boštjan Pucelj)

Agata Tomažič

Agata Tomažič (1977) graduated in French at the Faculty of Arts and in Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana. She first impressed readers with her extraor- dinary journalistic contribution to a major national newspaper and her translations of fiction and non-fiction from English and French. She ventured into the literary scene with her much admired collection of short stories Things You Can’t Tell Your Hairdresser, published in 2015, and a year later with a literary travelogue Why Travel to Such Places? In 2017 her debut novel Right Under the Sky was published by Goga, followed by another collection of short stories. She currently works at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and keeps in touch with her audience as an avid tweeter.