The Stranger

Urška finds herself in a city where everything feels foreign: big buildings, crowds of people. How will she navigate a world where she doesn’t know anyone? Anže, on the other had, knows the city well. He has lived on its outskirts his entire life. Yet an impassable wall stands between him and his peers. Most of the time he is alone with his thoughts. That is why they call him The Quiet One. When their paths intertwine and worlds collide, the story begins to unravel. And when fate intervenes, carefully guarded yet astonishing secrets are unexpectedly revealed. In his previous novels, Igor Karlovšek has taken teenage heroes into history, modern cities, and the wilderness of our time. This time, he takes them even further. The Stranger is a novel about growing up, friendship, first love, alienation, and the search for one’s place in the world. It is a reflection on what ultimately matters most.