With a global perspective, Babnik takes on the themes of racism,
the role of women in modern society and the loneliness of the human
condition. Dry Season is a record of an unusual love affair. Anna
is a 62-year-old designer from Slovenia and Ismael, a 27-year-old
man from Burkino Faso who has grownup on the street, often the
victim of abuse. What unites them is the loneliness of their
bodies, a tragic childhood and the hamartan dry season, during
which neither nature nor love is able to flourish. Anna soon
realizes that the emptiness between them is not really caused by
their skin colour and age difference, but predominantly by her
belonging to the Western culture in which she has lost or abandoned
all the preordained roles of daughter, wife and mother. Sex does
not outstrip the loneliness and repressed secrets from the past
surface into a world she relsies ismuch crueller than she thought
and, at the same time, more innocent than her own. Cleverly written
as an alternating narrative of both sides in the relationship, the
novel is interlaced with magic realism.
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