To be published: Q3 2026
Pets. The novel is a fantastic allegory, which the author herself describes as a “prison fairy tale.” With extraordinary exaggeration, linguistic inventiveness, and satire, the author depicts life behind bars—but from the perspective of animals. The text could be described as a kind of allegorical fable that explores the world of a women’s prison colony through the stories of its animal inhabitants – mainly cats, but also crows, dogs, and rats. The main character is the free-spirited Cat (Kotan), who leads a gang in the prison yard.
His life is disrupted by the arrival of Irča, a white crow – a naive, kind-hearted and passionately human character who carries with her an imprint of freedom and vulnerability. The story also features Šanja, a pedigree British cat who comes to the prison environment to look for her arrested mistress. Together with Irča and Kocour, they embark on a seemingly impossible mission: to rescue a person from prison. This journey becomes a kind of metaphysical pilgrimage, intertwining hints of Orwellian satire, children’s fairy tales, and Russian grotesquesky.