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How do you investigate a crime if you don't even know it happened? Taras wakes up from a coma after a serious accident on Polhogradska Grmada. Not only does he face a long battle with demanding physical rehabilitation, but he also has a huge memory gap.

Everything is closed due to Covid, sinister changes are also taking place at the General Police Station... Although Taras' colleagues wonder whether the epidemic has temporarily put an end to serious crime, the truth is darker: the real question is what is hidden from their view. In Koma, Tadej Golob confidently crosses the boundaries of the crime genre and measures the socio-political pulse of the corona time.

Softcover, 20 x 13.9 cm, 423 pages.

THEY SAID ABOUT THE BOOK:

• "Whenever I picked up one of Golob's books, I would quiz myself. Will I know at least roughly what awaits me on page five on page forty? Will I be able to predict what will happen on page one hundred and fifty on page two hundred and fifty? And it is precisely because I was defeated in the vast majority of these quizzes that I loved picking up his books so much and stopped being surprised that 178 readers borrow one of Tadej's books every day in Slovenian libraries." - Slavko Bobovnik
• "Tadej's sentences are frames. His chapters are episodes of a series. Novels are films. His writing is visually compelling: as you read, the murder, Taras and everything else unfolds before your eyes. This time we go where we've never gone before. To Coma." - Matevž Luzar, director
• "With his detective series centered around the character and work of Inspector Taras Birsa, a unique blend of Scandinavian crime fiction, English detective fiction, and American hard-boiled detective fiction, Tadej Golob has managed to (re)create a distinctively Slovenian slo-noir genre: Golob/Birsa, with his investigation of typically Slovenian blood and sexual crimes, gives us a taste and smell of that typically Slovenian way of committing crimes that emanates from every corner of his criminally good crime fiction opus." - Mirt Komel
• "Tadej Golob in a few sentences: Creativity – surprises around every corner, minute, coffee, peak, side, climbed stretch, morning in the snow and a book. Humor – when you have to listen and hear what you would rather not know about yourself, the world, others, and everything is so funny that you can barely keep your grip or not fall off your chair. Heartiness – when you are in need, they go to the edge of the world for you in the middle of the night. Climbing – long and difficult stretches. "Well, go all out, give it your all, I won't kill you..." Openness – understanding what is happening, and saying it out loud, whether anyone wants to hear it or not. Development and progress never happened when everyone agreed." - Blaž Stres, IFMGA mountain guide, doctor of biochemistry and molecular biology, full professor

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Tadej Golob (1967) is one of the most original Slovenian authors with a thematically diverse range of works. He emerged as a writer with the book Z Everesta (2000), in which he describes Davo Karničar's skiing from the highest mountain in the world, to the top of which he himself climbed, and continued with biographies of Petar Vilfan (2004), Zoran Predin (2009) and Goran Dragić (2015), Milena Zupančič, Petar Čeferin, Alenka Bratušek (2018), with the novels for young people Zlati zob (2011) and Kam je izvejila Brina? (2013), and with the novels for adults Svinjske nogice (Kresnik Award 2010) and Ali boma ye! (nominated for Kresnik Award 2014). The crime series starring Taras Birsa, which began with the novel Jezero (nominated for Kresnik Award 2017), is inspired by the Scandinavian type of crime novels. Especially those written by journalists and revealing, between the lines, lesser-known aspects of the society we live in. The author is the recipient of the Kresnik 2010 award.