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FAIRGROUND MAGICIAN
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| By: |
Jelena Lengold, Celia Hawkesworth (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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£8.99 |
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£7.64 |
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£1.35 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1908236108 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781908236104 |
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| Publisher: |
ISTROS BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
13 August, 2013 |
| Series: |
Best Balkan Books |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Translated from: |
Serbian |
| Description: |
A witty, wonderful collection of short stories with a distinctly feminine, erotic flavour. With a selection of wonderful characters; from Elvis impersonators to cat lovers, Lengold takes the reader on a charming ride in this prize-winning collection. |
| Synopsis: |
This collection features stories about love fulfilled and unfulfilled, about things that are visible in the everyday world and values that are perceptible only at exceptional moments. The narration moves from apparent realism to other genres, such as crime fiction, the thriller, and erotic prose. Memories, intimations, and premonitions are infused in these stories with a tranquility that accepts what fate brings, even when, as in the stories "Pockets Full of Stones "or "Nosedive," efforts are made to change it. Lengold uses eroticism as a natural ingredient of human life, as an integrated tension consisting of two inseparable aspects body and soul energizing stories like "Love Me Tender," "Fairground Magician," "Zugzwang," "Wanderings," and "Aurora Borealis." Lengold is a lucid observer of minute details and subtle emotional shifts. In stories like "It Could Have Been Me," "Shadow," or "Ophelia, Get Thee to a Nunnery," she manages to leap over the wall between the bodily surface and the human interior in a very distinctive way. No matter how common the situations she depicts whether it be broken marriages, unfulfilled expectations, or the motives of forlorn lovers Lengold is constantly searching for the authentic, finding it within the sophisticated irony which is a trademark of her fiction." |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Istros Books |
| Prizes: |
Winner of European Union Prize for Literature 2011 |
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Returnable |
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