This novel is a love story in time of war, about a few years in the life and mysterious disappearance of Veronika Zarnik, a young bourgeois woman from Ljubljana, sucked into the whirlwind of a turbulent period in history, Slovenia before and during World War II. We follow her story from the perspective of five different characters.
Drago Jancar has received a number of literary awards, including:
- International Ignazio Silone Prize (Premio Internazionale Ignazio Silone) in 2016
- Best Foreign Book Prize (Prix du meilleur livre etranger) (I Saw Her That Night) in 2014
- European Prize for Literature (Prix Européen de Littérature) in 2011
- Kresnik Award for best novel of the year three times: in 1999 (Zvenenje v glavi), 2001 (Katarina, pav in jezuit) and 2011 (I Saw Her That Night)
- Herder Prize for literature in 2003
- European Short Story Award in 1994
- PreSeren Award, Slovenia's most prestigious arts award
"Friendship and betrayal, hope and guilt and the torment of remembering are Jancar's themes. His liquid balancing of illusion and reality sustains this kaleidoscopic, communal war novel, which moves relentlessly towards an obvious yet symbolic act of violence." -
Irish Times
