{"product_id":"i-am-the-brother-of-xx-9780811225984","title":"I Am the Brother of XX","description":"Fleur Jaeggy is often noted for her terse and telegraphic style, which somehow brews up a profound paradox that seems bent on haunting the reader: despite a sort of zero-at-the-bone baseline, her fiction is weirdly also incredibly moving. How does she do it? No one knows. But here, in her newest collection, \u003cem\u003eI Am the Brother of XX\u003c\/em\u003e, she does it again. Like a magician or a master criminal, who can say how she gets away with it, but whether the stories involve famous writers (Calvino, Ingeborg Bachmann, Joseph Brodsky) or baronesses or 13th-century visionaries or tormented siblings bred up in elite Swiss boarding schools, they somehow steal your heart. And they don't rest at that, but endlessly disturb your mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJaeggy, Fleur:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eFleur Jaeggy\u003c\/strong\u003e-- \"a wonderful, brilliant, savage writer\" (Susan Sontag) --was born in 1940 in Zurich and lives in Milan. Her work has been acclaimed as \"small-scale, intense, and impeccably focused \"(The New Yorker) and \"addictive\" (Kirkus).\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlhadeff, Gini:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - The author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sun at Midday\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDiary of a Djinn\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eGini Alhadeff\u003c\/strong\u003e translated to great acclaim Patrizia Cavalli's \u003cem\u003eMy Poems Won't Change the World\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641687871762,"sku":"9780811225984","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fe08c4f0-8000-4b35-95f1-89dc37375a35.jpg?v=1733030157","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-am-the-brother-of-xx-9780811225984","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}