Alamut was originally written in 1938 as an allegory to Mussolini’s fascist state. In the 1960s it became a cult favorite throughout Tito’s Yugoslavia, and in the 1990s, during the war in the Balkans, it was read as an allegory of the region’s strife and became a bestseller in Germany, France, and Spain. The book once again took on a new life following the attacks of 9/11/2001 because of its early description of the world of suicide bombers in fanatical sects, selling more than 20,000 copies in a new Slovenian edition

Книга представляет сто лет из истории словенской «малой» прозы от 1910 до 2009 года; одновременно — более полувека развития отечественной словенистической школы перевода. 18 словенских писателей и 16 российских переводчиков — зримо и талантливо явленная в текстах общность мировоззрений и художественных пристрастий