My Father's Dreams: A Tale of Innocence Abused, is a controversial
and shocking novel by Slovenia's bestselling author Evald Flisar,
and is regarded by many critics as his best. The book tells the
story of fourteen-year-old Adam, the only son of a village doctor
and his quiet wife, living in apparent rural harmony. But this is a
topsy-turvy world of illusions and hopes, in which the author plays
with the function of dreaming and story-telling to present the
reader with an eccentric 'bildungsroman' in reverse. Spiced with
unusual and original overtones of the grotesque, the history of an
insidious deception is revealed, in which the unsuspecting son and
his mother will be the apparent victims; and yet who can tell
whether the gruesome end is reality or just another dream - This is
a novel that can be read as an off-beat crime story, a
psychological horror tale, a dream-like morality fable, or as a
dark and ironic account of one man's belief that his personality
and his actions are two different things. It can also be read as a
story about a boy who has been robbed of his childhood in the
cruelest way. It is a book which has the force of myth: revealing
the fundamentals without drawing any particular attention to them;
an investigation into good and evil, and our inclination to be
drawn to the latter.
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