{"product_id":"sweet-days-of-discipline-9780811229036","title":"Sweet Days of Discipline","description":"A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: \"At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.\" 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 Fréderique, the apparently perfect new girl. In Tim Parks' consummate translation (with its \"spare, haunting quality of a prose poem,\" TLS), \u003cem\u003eSweet Days of Discipline\u003c\/em\u003e is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.\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\u003eParks, Tim:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eTim Parks\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction, including the best-selling \u003cem\u003eItalian Neighbors\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAn Italian Education\u003c\/em\u003e. His novels include \u003cem\u003eEuropa\u003c\/em\u003e which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His essays have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books. \u003c\/em\u003eParks is also a renowned translator from the Italian and lives in Verona.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50589830480146,"sku":"9780811229036","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f2239b96-3aec-4c5e-ad2f-da59b5d93ea6.jpg?v=1732075798","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sweet-days-of-discipline-9780811229036","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}