Fairground Magician

The collection Fairground Magician brings together 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; from crime fiction or thriller to erotic prose. Memories intimations and premonitions are infused in these stories with a tranquillity that accepts what fate brings even when efforts are made to change it as in the stories Pockets Full of Stones or Nosedive.Lengold uses eroticism as a natural ingredient of human life as an integrated tension consisting of two inseparable aspects – body and soul – energising stories like Love Me Tender Zugzwang Wanderings and Aurora Borealis. In Fairground Magician 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 are 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.Jelena Lengold is a storyteller novelist and poet. She has published five books of poetry one novel (Baltimore) and four books of short stories including Rain-soaked Lions Lift and Fairground Magician which won her the European Prize for Literature in 2011. Lengold works as a journalist and an editor at Radio Belgrade.This book is also available as a eBook. Buy it from Amazon here.