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    In/Half

    By Jasmin B. Frelih

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    WINNER OF THE EU PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE KRESNIK AWARD

    Twenty-five years into the future, a glitch in the global communications network is ripping a previously united world apart at the seams. The millennials find themselves hardest hit, trapped in a crumbling world they did not want – among them childhood friends Evan, an addict theatre director; Kras, a family patriarch and ex-war-minister; and Zoja, an anarchist poet. As they each prepare to celebrate their fiftieth birthdays, the friends desperately try to recapture the magic of their former lives and hold on to some sort of sense of belonging.

    With its experimental style and sharp focus on the contradictions of modernity, In/Half is a powerful statement on the perils of the future, and on the nature of the novel, by an outstanding voice from the new generation of writers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOneworld Publications
    Release dateNov 1, 2018
    ISBN9781786073914
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    Jasmin B. Frelih

    Jasmin B. Frelih studied comparative literature, literary theory and history at the University of Ljubljana. His published works include a short story collection (Tiny Ideologies) and a book of essays (Pale Freedom). His debut novel In/Half was published in 2013 to great critical acclaim, receiving the best literary debut award at the annual Slovenian Book Fair as well as the EU Prize for Literature. In/Half was also shortlisted for the Kresnik Award, and translation rights have been sold to more than ten territories. He lives in Slovenia.

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    • 3/5
      This was certainly an interesting and at times every engaging tale. Overall I found myself tired of what felt like very experimental and self-important/insertion monologuing. I also felt like the individual storylines were plotted well and moving along fairly nicely, and it felt like it had devolved past the point of no return at the end.
    • 2/5
      I found this book very difficult to follow as well as to get into. The story alternates between three individuals who don't seem to be related at all and will eventually collide in the final chapters. Evan is staging a theatrical production in Tokyo. Kras has a complicated family gathering in Slovenia. Zoja is a poet in NYC whose rabid fans are throwing a massive rave hoping that she'll show up. I requested this book from LibraryThing's Early Reviewer's program because of this sentence in the description: "It is twenty-five years into the future, and a glitch in the global communications network is ripping a previously united world apart at the seams." However, the glitch and the fallout from it hardly seem to be mentioned, much less the point of this novel. The point, it seems, is to lovingly, wordily, and artistically describe the day-to-day actions of three terrible people and the other terrible people who surround them.Actually, I shouldn't be so harsh to Kras and his family. About a third of the way into the book, I decided I had much better things to do with my time, but still went through and read the chapters about them. I was kind of interested in a couple of them as well as the seeming mystery behind the absence of Kras' oldest son, but there was no payoff to this at all.The second star in this rating is wholly for the translator. As mentioned, Frelih is wordy and I'm impressed by Jason Blake's ability to preserve that verbosity. Maybe I missed the point of this book, and it gets better at the end and even has a fantastic redemptive ending for these people. I hope so. But Frelih needs to learn to draw his reader in if he wants them to make it there, instead of alienating them with his repugnant characters.
    • 2/5
      I received this as an early reviewer book. Thank you.I have been trying to “wade” myself through this book since I received it but I doubt I will be able to finish it.The author likes LONG sentences- which are almost like paragraphs to me and this has created a stumbling block for me. Here is an example: “He did some sit-ups, a bit of shadow-boxing and ran on the treadmill, until the sweat was streaming from every pore of his body and until everything inside him was screaming and he had visions of cardiac arrest - knife to the chest, a stagger, a fall to the green floor below, a blue face, a few convulsions, foaming from the mouth, and his end, noticed a few hours later by the scream of a cleaning lady who would sweep him under the carpet and answer the cop’s questions with an unperturbed shrugging of the shoulders.”I will try to go back to finish it between my other reads, perhaps that way I will be able to finish it.For me, reading long sentences like that, I almost want to give a big sigh after each

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