Heat level: On a spice-level scale of 1 to 5, this would rank: 4
[BDSM scenes; brief sex scenes.]
An isolated travel writer—grappling with the death of a lover—has a crisis of identity that sends her from Ljubljana to Buenos Aires to Tierra del Fuego, along the way finding liberating love with a captivating Argentinian woman and connection with the natural world. This erotic and meditative novel is at once an unconventional sapphic love story and a poetic ode to the wilderness, as animals speak for themselves and landscapes transform their inhabitants.
SUBJECT: Travel / Microcosm / Fiction / Nature / Microcosm Distributed / Romance
PUBLICATION: Dec 1, 2026
PRICE: $18.99
ISBN: 9798998759697
FORMAT: 250 pages, 5x8", paperback
WHOLESALE: Standard
CARTON QTY: 32
ART: N/A
Marketing Notes
- Romantic literary novel in translation from the Slovenian; was previously published in Slovenia and in Argentina, both to critical acclaim
- Author is a poet, and her prose is beautiful, experimental, and immersive
- The book is at once a travel novel, a queer romance, and a tale of eco-grief and connection with the natural world
Jana Putrle Srdić is the author of four critically acclaimed poetry collections and her debut novel was recently published in Spanish by Gog y Magog (2025, Buenos Aires). She also writes short stories, essays, and articles focusing on emerging art, and translates poetry.
Rawley Grau, originally from Baltimore, has lived in Ljubljana since 2001, and his translations from the Slovene include Billiards at the Hotel Dobray and Panorama, both by Dušan Šarotar; The Harvest of Chronos and Fragma, both by Mojca Kumerdej; Dry Season by Gabriela Babnik and The Succubus by Vlado Žabot (the latter co-translated with Nikolai Jeffs).
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