With Guarding Hanna, best-selling Slovenian novelist and award-winning screenwriter Miha Mazzini has created a hilarious and wrenching modern fable and thriller without peer. Badly deformed, with the face "of a prize boar" and a fondness for Bach, the unnamed narrator of this novel earns a living collecting debts for Maestro, the patriarch of a Berlin gang. But when Maestro asks him to protect the eccentric Hanna Woyczik, the sole witness to a crime whose testimony can save Maestro, he is horrified to learn that he must actually live with her for an entire week as they await her trial. Having never spent more than five minutes alone with any human being—never mind a woman—he quickly finds the basic tasks of modern life—such as conversing, eating, and shopping for toilet paper—insufferable, and within hours of entering Hanna’s life, the question becomes, "Who is protecting whom?"
