Sleeping Dragons

Baudoin’s beguiling portrayals of day-to-day lives belie the unsettling feeling of things unseen and unsaid, and on the verge of falling apart. In the title story, a pregnant woman on an eco-adventure to escape a recent break-up finds herself heading towards an even murkier future. In "Mengele in Love," a chambermaid in a hotel reminisces about her lost love for a previous resident. As Alberto Manguel observes in his introduction "each story takes a situation to unexpected extremes, and the endings are always surprising and subtly justified."

Portretizarile inselatoare ale lui Baudoin ale vietii de zi cu zi infirma sentimentul tulburator al lucrurilor nevazute si nespuse si pe punctul de a se destrama. In povestea titlului, o femeie insarcinata intr-o aventura ecologica pentru a scapa de o despartire recenta se gaseste indreptandu-se catre un viitor si mai tulbure.