Heiki Vilep also writes for adult readers: novels and short stories that move between dark comedy, crime and the question of how a person lives with what he has done. All titles are available for translation in any language, and finished manuscripts can be printed on demand.
A man reviewing his life builds an imagined city from his memories, where a mysterious Judge questions his self-justifications. Novel, 2026.
Heiki Vilep's first collection of stories for adults. Several stories already exist in English translation. Short stories, 2026.
Two years alone after a separation, told as an escalating comic fantasy: night after night, imagined guests and adventures, and every morning reality breaks in. In the end, the reader is no longer sure which world is the real one.
Ervin Tamm is found dead, and five people he blackmailed each believe they killed him. The truth is stranger. Crime novel.
After his wife's death, Arvo, a sixty-year-old repairman, sets out to find a new partner with charts, typologies and a talking parrot. A comedy in the spirit of Švejk.
A moment of dread in which everyday life falls away and death becomes physically real. Novel, 2010.
A man throws his drunken wife out of the house, and moments later she is killed by a bus. He begs Fate to turn back time. Fate shows him other lives and gives him chance after chance to make amends. Novel, 2011.
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