Sweet Days of Discipline

Sweet Days of Discipline

On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover
A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggyâ€™s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: â€œAt fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.â€ But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of FrÃ©derique, the apparently perfect new girl.Â In Tim Parksâ€™ consummate translation (with its â€œspare, haunting quality of a prose poem,â€ TLS), Sweet Days of Discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780811229036
ReleaseDate 2019-10-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811229036

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