In September, we continue with the museum’s Reading the Mountains 2024 reading club.
This year’s meeting will take place on Monday, 23 September 2024 at 6 pm and will focus on the latest book by Tadej Golob, Oj, Triglav, moj dom. Irena Cerar will moderate a discussion on her impressions.
OJ TRIGLAV MOJ DOM, TADEJ GOLOB
Taras Birsa, an experienced criminal inspector at the Ljubljana Police Department and a former mountaineer, sets off with his police team to Triglav. Little does he know that their excursion is about to turn into a tense detective puzzle.
A storm on Triglav captures a group of mountaineers. Taras and his former climbing companion go on a rescue mission from Kredarica, where they stumble upon a dead body alongside the confused and desperate climbers. Although at the time the whole rescue team is convinced that the unfortunate man was struck by lightning, it later turns out that he was killed by a bullet to the head (source: Emka).
Tadej Golob (1967) is one of the most distinctive Slovenian authors with a thematically diverse range of works. He appeared among writers with his book From Everest (2000), in which he describes Dave Karničar’s skiing from the highest mountain in the world, which he himself climbed, and went on to write biographies of Peter Vilfan (2004), Zoran Predin (2009) and Goran Dragić (2015), Milena Zupančič, Petr Čeferin, Alenka Bratušek (2018), the young adult novels The Golden Tooth (2011) and Where Has Brina Gone? (The series of crime novels starring Taras Birsa, which began with the novel Jezero (nominated for the 2017 Prix de la Crécis), is inspired by the Scandinavian type of crime novels. In particular, those written by journalists who reveal between the lines the lesser-known sides of the society we live in (source: GOGA Publishing House).
