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| Verlag | And Other Stories |
| Auflage | 2018 |
| Format | 13 x 19,9 x 0,9 cm |
| Gewicht | 130 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Übersetzer | Tim Parks |
| ISBN-10 | 1911508180 |
| EAN | 9781911508182 |
| Bestell-Nr | 91150818UA |
An unsettling tale of friendship and tension in a boarding school, this multiple prize-winner is relaunched in a handsome new edition.
Klappentext:
Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy\'s eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enough: \'At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell\'. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here. With the off-handed knowingness of a remorseless young Eve, the narrator describes life as a captive of the school and her designs to win the affections of the seemingly perfect new girl, Frederique. As she broods over her schemes as well as on the nature of control and madness, the novel gathers a suspended, unsettling energy.
Rezension:
A wonderful, brilliant, savage writer.\' Susan Sontag\'Fleur Jaeggy\'s pen is an engraver\'s needle depicting roots, twigs, and branches of the tree of madness - extraordinary.\' Joseph Brodsky\'She has the enviable first glance for people and things, she harbors a mixture of distracted levity and authoritative wisdom.\' Ingeborg Bachmann\'Small-scale, intense, and impeccably focused.\' New YorkerNothing rivals its intensity.- Los Angeles TimesHow a novel could be so chilly and so passionate at the same time is a puzzle, but that icy-hot quality is only one of the distinctions of Sweet Days of Discipline.- April Bernard, NewsdayStartling and originalso disturbing and so haunting.- Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books
