On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggyâs eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: âAt fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.â 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 FrĂ©derique, the apparently perfect new girl. In Tim Parksâ consummate translation (with its âspare, haunting quality of a prose poem,â TLS), Sweet Days of Discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.
On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggyâs eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: âAt fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.â 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 FrĂ©derique, the apparently perfect new girl. In Tim Parksâ consummate translation (with its âspare, haunting quality of a prose poem,â TLS), Sweet Days of Discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.