★Rights sold to Hungary, Croatia, Italy, Albania, Serbia, Greece, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Albania, Lithuania, Poland, and North Macedonia!
★ Winner of the 2024 Kresnik Award for Best Novel of the Year!
★ Author Anja Mugerli is the acclaimed 2021 European Union Prize for Literature laureate. Her works have been translated into over 10 languages and published globally, widely recognized for their international impact and literary merit.
★ With rare courage, this novel confronts female life experiences shrouded in silence—infertility, artificial insemination, miscarriage—dissecting physical/psychological agony and social pressures. It gives voice to a globally prevalent yet overlooked struggle.
Rights sold： Hungary, Croatia, Italy, Albania, Serbia, Greece, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Albania, Lithuania, Poland and North Macedonia.

In Anja Mugerli’s second novel, we follow Jana and Primož, who long for a child while facing constant reminders from those around them that “it’s time.” Their expectations soon unravel into anguish and despair.

The author confronts taboo subjects—infertility, artificial insemination, miscarriage—with unflinching honesty. Central to the narrative is the woman: her societal roles, and above all, her body laid bare under scrutiny, alongside waves of loneliness, emptiness, and guilt. Yet amid the story’s chilling darkness and silence, light, nature, and art persistently break through, easing life’s burdens.

When Intimacy Shatters
“Reproductive Clinic” (Klinika za reprodukcijo)—the name alone evokes unease, even fear, on their first visit. What follows are invasive tests, surgeries, ovarian monitoring, blood analyses, and a diagnosis: idiopathic infertility, unexplained and absolute.

Anja Mugerli
Born in 1984, she holds a Bachelor’s degree in Slovenian Studies and a Master’s degree in Performance Studies and Creative Writing. Her collection of short stories Zeleni fotelj (The Green Armchair) was published, which was nominated for best debut at a book fair the same year. In 2017 the novel Spovin (Winery) was ranked among the ten novels nominated for the Kresnik Award and was presented at 2019 novel debut festivals in Budapest and Kiel, Germany. Her short stories have been translated into Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, English, German, French, Hungarian and Lithuanian. She was an EUPL Award Winner in 2021!