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The Child from the Forest

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The debut novel by Sergej Curanović offers an imaginary world highly atypical of Slovenian literature. The Child from the Forest is an ecological crime novel, a mystery, and a socio-political novel infused with elements of surrealism. The novel is a product of imagination—more than that, it is the kind of imagination Slovenian literature sorely lacks.

Dimensions: 13 × 20 cm
No. of pages: 280
Year of publication: 2025
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About the Book

A man arrives in a village to take over his inherited family homestead. There, he discovers the diary entries of his great-grandfather, a police inspector from the beginning of the last century. The great-grandfather was consumed by the mysterious disappearance of a local professor. The professor, too, left behind a hidden diary containing an account of how, deep in the forest, through a union with an ancient oak tree, he conceived the titular Child—a young girl who grew from the trunk while remaining fused with it. Is this pure fantasy? Or is it a coded record of real, albeit perhaps controversial, events

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Sergej Curanović

Sergej Curanović (1980, Kranj) holds a degree in law and works as a translator.

The Child from the Forest is his second book and his first novel. His debut, the short story collection Plavalec (Cankarjeva založba, 2019), received the Novo mesto Award for Best Short Fiction Collection. The title story from the collection was included in an anthology of Slovenian short prose published in both German and English.