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Book SynopsisThe narrator of this novel is Ballerina, a fifteen-year-old with the cognitive faculties of a child, and each of its fifteen chapters begins with her first wetting her bed and thereby greeting a new day. Drawing comparison to William Faulkner in its expressionistic depiction of Ballerina's interior world, this is a classic of contemporary Slovenian literature: a hugely popular exploration of a character whose world is so divorced from what we think of as reality.
Trade ReviewBallerina, Ballerina is a painful and poetic reconstruction of its narrator's fractured worldview... in both the details of her family life and the bits of the mass-media reality that flow beyond the boundaries of her backyard... [she] is unreliable, disoriented, atemporal. -- Vladislava Gordic Petkovic While Sosic's brand of Continental modernism can be challenging, he is masterful in achieving his apparent aim: placing the reader within a totally different consciousness. Publishers Weekly
