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Vdih. Izdih.

Breathe in. Breathe out.

Adam, a man hunting mute birds, visits the big city. He returns to his house on the shore with an empty birdcage and a parentless boy, who soon grows to love Adam and his roommates, Ema Olivia and Kan. Everything seems mundane, except that the adult residents of the house sometimes vanish in the night and then spend the morning doing work they never talk about. The boundaries between reality and fiction are fragile and thin – the book seems to be a dark dystopia, yet each page reveals more and more resemblance to our real world. Breathe In. Breathe out. is a brilliantly written simile while also being a socially engaged book with a unique response to the refugee crisis.

Year of publication: 2017
Sebastijan Pregelj (foto: Boštjan Pucelj)

Sebastijan Pregelj

Sebastijan Pregelj was born in Ljubljana in 1970. He’s been publishing stories in literary publications since 1992. His first novel, Burkači, skrunilci in krivoprisežniki, was published in 1996, followed by a short story collection. His work was included in the Čas kratke zgodbe anthology, which was translated into German and Czech. He loves and works in Ljubljana and is a member of the Slovene Writer’s Association.