A recently published book by the Slovenian author, also a protester and a vocal critic of the current economic, social and political conditions in Slovenia, Lenart Zajc, has a simple and, to the first letter, tellingly simple title: Agency. Through his novels, Lenart Zajc not only grows up before the reader's eyes, but also grows, but remains faithful to his stories about ordinary people, about us. The novel Agency provides an insight into the life and work of insurance agents at one of the Slovenian insurance companies, as well as into the miserable everyday life of their clients. Reading that could be bitter and boring, but it is by no means so. Zajc's vocabulary is rich, the descriptions of people and places are picturesque, and the simplicity of the everyday workday of completely ordinary people is written in such a tense way that you cannot put the book down in the middle, but the reading fever will drive you all the way to the end, optimistically focused not on the so-called future, but on the meaning of every tiny moment of life. In the portrayal of the main characters, everyone among us can be found – at least perhaps in the character of the novel's key character, the decadent, mysterious and provocative young woman Mici, who is omnipresent. But who Mici really is is left to the imagination of each individual reader. The Agency is a novel that dramatizes the hope that in the end good will triumph, that honest work will get you somewhere, and that people are not wolves to each other, but warm shoulders that can endure and do anything.