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.