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Reviews

While exploring aggressive tactics used by the Catholic Church in their campaign against Protestantism in a studious manner and with special attention to detail, Mojca Kumerdej doesn’t fail – by way of metafictional jumps into the future – to establish correlations with current events or at the very least allude to history repeating itself. – Radio Slovenia

The novel handles historical material with awareness and gives it a postmodern treatment, which comes with a great deal of temporal and spiritual distance, treating it with both empathy and irony. What’s more, the book brandishes significant philosophical examinations of fundamental humanist issues – of being, of time, of nothingness, of god. This is the novel’s core. – LUD Literatura

Mojca Kumerdej wrote a superb historical novel that raises the philosophical question of meaning, engages the reader and demands many leaps of thought. Despite its length, it is never boring and continues to captivate, enlighten, and delight with linguistic cleverness and artistry. – Peripetije

Slovenian writers are fond of delving into documents of times past and cloaking their findings in literary interpretations of historical events. But the majority of them go only as far back as our recent and not-so-distant past, in the best case to the beginnings of the 20th century, and fewer venture further back in time. Mojca Kumerdej makes a significantly bigger step here and goes back to the early modern era, 16th century to be exact, where she explores some of the primal patterns and origins of modernity – in particular modern, contemporary Slovenians. If perhaps, after reading The Harvest of Chronos, this isn’t just a humorous oxymoron. – Dnevnik

Author Biography

Mojca Kumerdej (1964) is an award-winning writer and philosopher. She also works as a critic, covering dance, performance and intermedia arts. Her first novel, Baptism above Triglav (Krst nad Triglavom, 2001), was an ironic look at Slovenian cultural and literary traditions. Her two collections of short prose, Fragma (2003) and Dark Matter (Temna snov, 2011), show an utterly original world, one that derives from the inner corners of contemporary society. Her latest novel, The Harvest of Chronos (Kronosova žetev, 2016) is a picturesque portrait of the 16th century, which won her the Kritiško sito Award for best book of the year awarded by the Slovenian Literary Critics’ Association and the Prešeren Fund Award, Slovenia’s highest award for artistic achievement, and was also shortlisted for the Kresnik Award for best novel of the year. Her prose has been translated into over ten languages and included in various anthologies at home and abroad.