The first collection of stories by the young Slovenian writer Andrej Blatnik to appear in English, Skinswaps represents a new ethos in the literature of post-communist Eastern Europe. Unconcerned with the ponderous legacy of communism and the explicit struggle between the personal and the political, Blatnik's stories utilize a range of narrative perspectives from the dramatically oblique, the formally experimental, and the comically absurd to the poignantly realistic to cast unexpected light on universal conflicts of identity and fate. Blatnik's detached and impersonal yet eerily compelling...