My Father's Dreams

<p><em>My Father's Dreams: A Tale of Innocence Abused</em> is a controversial and shocking novel by Slovenia's bestselling author<strong> Evald Flisar</strong> 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.</p><p>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....</p><p>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.</p>