About the Book
A November 2007 BookSense Notable Book and the winner of the 2008 Gold Award for Superb Craftsmanship from the Detroit Club of Printing House Craftsmen.
Original title: Koraci kroz maglu. Publishers in English: Polaris (2003), PS Publishing (UK, 2006, as part of the mega-collection Impossible Stories), Aio Publishing (US, 2007).
Stories from the book have been published in the UK (Interzone: September, November/December 2002, January, February, March 2003), in Finland (Tähtivaeltaja: February 2003), and in France (Les moutons électriques: Fall 2005). The story “Alarm Clock on the Night Table” was broadcast by BBC Radio 7 on 11 March 2007.
Five women of various ages face, each in her own way, what seems to be the deterministic trap of Fate: a freshman in a girls’ boarding school with the strange ability to share other people’s dreams; a young woman in a straitjacket, desperately trying to locate a very particular future; a middle-aged skier refusing to be just a puppet on a string; an elderly fortune-teller with insufficient faith in her own trade; finally, an old lady whose very precious alarm clock is suddenly broken. And engulfing all of them, a strange mist through which no-one can see clearly…
