Jelena Lukić (1975. Cacak) is one of the most interesting literary voices coming from former Yugoslavia. She first caught the eye of literary public fifteen years ago when she was awarded the best young storyteller in Serbia. Many international awards and her new publications followed. Apart from prose, she also writes poetry and gives frequent performances at various festivals where she reads her prose and verse publicly. She is based in Užice, as a freelance journalist and writer.
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NEW !!!
 Chinese Woman Feet
or How the Vilage Learned about Sentiments
-a novel-
The plot follows the story of the village schoolmistress married to the carpenter, whose life changes for good when a foreigner coming from far and wide stops before her house. All of a sudden, all the protagonists in this strange story discover the sentiments they were not aware of. Following the model of Byzantine novels, Jelena Lukić employs the unusual literary technique to tell an interesting love story where cyclic monologues replace the ordinary dialogue weaving. Here we have a novel which technically follows the stream of consciousness of each character, appealing to the reader not only by the storyline, but by the vagueness of its genre, its realism and philosophical observations as well.
All of this, of course, in the metaphorical harmony with a pair of tiny feet, wrapped up and thus disabled to grow free to walk.
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