Ballerina, Ballerina

By Marko Sosič

The 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628970979
• ISBN13: 9781628970975
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 97 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher