The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy penguin Length: 38"

Length: 38"

Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship

glittering black roses

Our narrator should be happy

entering at dawn to write

The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy penguin Length: 38"Even among Fleur Jaeggys singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealths odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the various relatives, friends, and servants of a man named Beeklam, a wealthy recluse who keeps statues in his villas flooded basement, where memories shiver in uncertain light and the waters run off to the