{"product_id":"the-water-statues-9780811229753","title":"The Water Statues","description":"Even among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, \u003cem\u003eThe Water Statues\u003c\/em\u003e is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth's odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the \u003cem\u003edramatis personae\u003c\/em\u003e include the various relatives, friends, and servants of a man named Beeklam, a wealthy recluse who keeps statues in his villa's flooded basement, where memories shiver in uncertain light and the waters run off to the sea.\u003cbr\u003e Dedicated to Ingeborg Bachmann and fleshed out with Jaeggy's austere yet voluptuous style, \u003cem\u003eThe Water Statues\u003c\/em\u003e--with its band of deracinated, loosely related souls (milling about as often in the distant past as in the mansion's garden full of intoxicated snails)--delivers like a slap an indelible picture of the swampiness of family life.\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":50615178985746,"sku":"9780811229753","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_89343fdc-ca01-4f38-ac38-06d2f918ff2d.jpg?v=1732477182","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-water-statues-9780811229753","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}