I am the Brother of XX
Winner of the John Florio Prize
Fleur Jaeggy
ISBN: | 9781911508021 |
Publisher: | And Other Stories |
Published: | 23 June, 2017 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
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I am the Brother of XX
Winner of the John Florio Prize
Fleur Jaeggy
A wife is suspended in a bird cage; a thirteenth-century visionary senses the foreskin of Christ on her tongue: Fleur Jaeggy's gothic imagination knows no limits. Whether telling of mystics, tormented families or famously private writers, Jaeggy's terse, telegraphic writing is always psychologically clear-eyed and deeply moving, always one step ahead, or to the side, of her readers' expectations. In this, her long-awaited return, we read of an 'eerie maleficent calm, a brutal calm', and recognise the timbre of a writer for whom a paradoxical world seethes with quiet violence.
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