The collection 'Fariground 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, such as crime fiction, the thriller and erotic prose.
Memories, intimations and premonitions are infused in these stories
with a tranquillity 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 - energising stories like Love Me Tender,
Fairground Magician, 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. "Fairground Magician is a wonderful
collection of short stories. Sensuous, charming, witty and urbane,
Jelena Lengold's stories of complex relationships and passions are
both highly literary and highly readable. This collection has
already won a number of European prizes: it deserves to be
discovered and treasured by the British readers." Vesna
Goldsworthy, author of 'Chernobyl Strawberries' and 'Inventing
Ruritania'
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