★Rights sold: Poland, Spain, Croatia, North Macedonia, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands and Greece.
★Winner of THE BEST FIRST BOOK AT THE SLOVENE BOOK FAIR (2013); Finalist for the Kresnik Award (Slovenia’s Best Novel); Selected for the EUROPEAN FIRST NOVEL FESTIVAL in Budapest, Hungary (2014); Winner of the EUROPEAN UNION PRIZE FOR LITERATURE (EUPL) (2016).
★Ingeniously weaving three destinies across time and space, this novel delivers an exhilarating reading experience akin to “surfing the World Wide Web,” while profoundly contemplating humanity and existence with solemn introspection.
Rights sold: Poland, Spain, Croatia, North Macedonia, UK, Italy,
Netherlands and Greece.

“The Fractured Hours” is a globalist novel set in a post-globalist future. The book interweaves three distinct narrative threads: Evan, an addict theatre director in future Tokyo, stages a play while lamenting the loss of the love of his life. Kras, a family patriarch and ex-war-minister, celebrates his 50th birthday in the Slovene part of what could nowadays be called “Fortress Europe”. Zoja, an anarchist poet, gets ready to read at the Brooklyn festival Poetrylitics, attended by a motley crew of intellectuals, artists, and madmen.

“The Fractured Hours” uses every trick in the postmodernist playbook, while also taking the tricks seriously. Not content to push the limits of text's possibilities, the novel charges its investigations into the fate of the individual, of the family, and of society with a solemn ontological weight and sends its characters hurtling through a disconnected world filled with the debris of past histories for them to find a sense of belonging. With its sharp focus on the contradictions of modernity, and with the reading experience likened to an extended surfing session on a world wide web crafted by an ingenious demiurge, “The Fractured Hours” is a powerful statement on the nature of the novel by a voice from the new generation of writers.

› AWARD FOR THE BEST FIRST BOOK AT THE SLOVENE BOOK FAIR IN 2013.
› ONE OF THE THREE FINALISTS FOR THE SOCIETY OF SLOVENE LITERARY CRITICS' AWARD FOR THE BEST ORIGINAL WORK OF 2013.
› ONE OF THE FIVE FINALISTS FOR THE KRESNIK AWARD FOR THE BEST SLOVENE NOVEL.
› SHOWCASED AS THE SLOVENE ENTRY FOR THE 2014 EUROPEAN FIRST NOVEL FESTIVAL IN BUDAPEST, HUNGARY.
› EUPL LAUREAT 2016

JASMIN B. FRELIH

Born in 1986 in Kranj, Slovenia, Jasmin B. Frelih studied at the University of Ljubljana, where he co-founded the literary magazine “Idiot” (The Idiot) and worked as its prose editor for four years, publishing the best and brightest writers of the young Slovene literary scene. His short stories, essays, and translations were published in all the major Slovene literary magazines.

In 2015, he published a short story collection “Ideoluzije” (“Tiny Ideologies”) and in 2017 an essay collection “Bleda svoboda” (“Pale Freedom”).