Partly parables, partly fairy tales, You Do Understand is a comedy of errors for a species of talkers who've never learned to listen.

Andrej Blatnik was born in Ljubljana in 1963. In addition to writing fiction and criticism, he serves on the jury of the Vilenica Central European Literary Award, and has translated the work of Paul Bowles and others. His collection Skinswaps was translated into English in 1998.