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Geopoetika Beograd, 2012.20 cm, 134 str.meki povez, latinicaISBN: 9788661451096In Baltimore, Jelena Lengold offers an exquisite portrayal of a Belgrade writer, a woman in her forti es, whose tightly packed, unresolved inner conflicts with herself and the people closest to her have led her to a sobering dead end. She is compelled to turn around and look closely at the routine of her everyday life – her marriage, family, friends, loves, lies and the likes. What she finds is a strange mixture of uncertainty and boredom, insecurity and determination which grow into fullblown frustration at sessions with her therapist. The writer’s block the protagonist suffers from is a metaphor for a blocked life, a life led in the recesses of reality represented in bouts of silence, web cam voyeurism and Internet flings.\ \ Lengold’s prose style – witty, sharp and somber– strikes a resounding tone for telling the truth of one of our lives. Show more