Steps through the Mist - Zivkovic, Zoran
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Five women of various ages face, each in her own way, what seems to be the deterministic trap of Fate: a freshman in a girls' boarding school with the strange ability to share other people's dreams; a young woman in a straitjacket, desperately trying to locate a very particular future; a middle-aged skier refusing to be just a puppet on a string; an elderly fortune-teller with insufficient faith in her own trade; finally, an old lady whose very precious alarm clock is suddenly broken. And engulfing all of them, a strange mist through which no-one can see clearly… A November 2007 BookSense…mehr

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Five women of various ages face, each in her own way, what seems to be the deterministic trap of Fate: a freshman in a girls' boarding school with the strange ability to share other people's dreams; a young woman in a straitjacket, desperately trying to locate a very particular future; a middle-aged skier refusing to be just a puppet on a string; an elderly fortune-teller with insufficient faith in her own trade; finally, an old lady whose very precious alarm clock is suddenly broken. And engulfing all of them, a strange mist through which no-one can see clearly… A November 2007 BookSense Notable Book Winner of the 2008 Gold Award for Superb Craftsmanship from the Detroit Club of Printing House Craftsmen
Autorenporträt
Zoran ¿ivkovi¿ was born in Belgrade, Serbia, on October 5, 1948. Until his recent retirement, he was a full professor at the Faculty of Philology, the University of Belgrade, teaching creative writing. He is one of the most translated contemporary Serbian writers: by the end of 2017 there were 93 foreign editions of his books of fiction, published in 23 countries, in 20 languages. ¿ivkovi¿ has won several literary awards for his fiction, beginning with the Milö Crnjanski award in 1994 for his novel The Fourth Circle. In 2003, ¿ivkovi¿'s mosaic novel The Library won a World Fantasy Award for Best Novella; in 2007 his novel The Bridge won the Isidora Sekuli¿ award; and in 2007 he received the Stefan Mitrov Ljubi¿a award for lifetime achievement in literature. In 2014 and 2015 he received three awards for his contribution to the literature of fantastika: Art-Anima, Stanislav Lem and The Golden Dragon. Zoran ¿ivkovi¿ has been recognized with his selection as European Grand Master for 2017 by the European Science Fiction Society at the 39th Eurocon in Dortmund, Germany.