Steps Through the Mist

Five women in various stages of lifeall connected by a mysterious, obscuring mistface the deterministic trap of fate in this mosaic novel. A freshman at a girl's boarding school gains the strange ability to share other people's dreams, whereas a young woman in a straitjacket desperately tries to select a very particular future from among countless possibilities. A middle-aged skier refuses to be a puppet on a string, while a mature fortune-teller experiences a faltering faith in her trade, and when an elderly woman's precious alarm clock suddenly breaks, she suffers a vivid and troubling encounter with her past. An enticing mix of the ordinary with the surreal and the mundane with the sublime, these tales quietly twist trusted concepts.

Zoran Zivkovic is the author of The Book/The Writer, The Devil in Brisbane, The Fourth Circle, Hidden Camera, and Seven Touches of Music. He is the recipient of the World Fantasy and the Milos Crnjanski Awards, was a two-time finalist for the International Dublin Literary and the Yugoslavian NIN Awards, and has been named a Guest of Honor for EuroCon 2007. His work has been published in 17 countries, broadcast on BBC radio, produced for television, and optioned for film.