{"product_id":"water-statues","title":"Water Statues","description":"\u003cp\u003eFamily, obsession, and privilege boiled down by the icy-hot Swiss-Italian master stylist Fleur Jaeggy. Even among 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFleshed out with Jaeggy’s austere yet voluptuous style, \u003cem\u003eThe Water Statues \u003c\/em\u003edelivers like a slap an indelible picture of the swampiness of family life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Reading Jaeggy is not unlike diving naked and headlong into a bramble of black rose bushes, so intrigued you are by their beauty: it’s a swift, prickly undertaking, and you emerge the other end bloodied all over’ -Daniel Johnson, The Paris Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57303739629950,"sku":"NW9781913505448","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781913505448.jpg?v=1778514454","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/water-statues","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}