The protagonist of the novel Moist Souls is Matjaž, a middle-aged man who is finally convinced by life, and especially by the ruthlessly self-confident village sheriffs who play with his fate and the fates of others like him, that the only way to untie the Gordian knot is to cut it. So he leaves his homeland and moves to a small Thai island, where he used to lead groups of tourists as a tour guide. There he begins a new life in the company of those who, like him, have given up fighting lost battles with the maddened modern world. However, it does not take long for him to hear the melody of the Slovene language behind him on a remote piece of paradise and realize that moist subalpine souls are not so easy to avoid. The sober-utopian novel Moist Souls is the author's first literary work after the short story collection Mumps in Mature Years, which was published in 1995.
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