Jaeggy, Fleur - I Am the Brother of Xx

Written by Jaeggy, Fleur. Themes include Jaeggy, Fleur, Translations into English.

Winner of the John Florio Prize for its translation

A wife is suspended in a bird cage; a thirteenth-century visionary senses the foreskin of Christ on her tongue: Fleur Jaeggy's gothic imagination knows no limits. Whether telling of mystics, tormented families or famously private writers, Jaeggy's terse, telegraphic writing is always psychologically clear-eyed and deeply moving, always one step ahead, or to the side, of her readers' expectations.

In this, her long-awaited return, we read of an 'eerie maleficent calm, a brutal calm', and recognise the timbre of a writer for whom a paradoxical world seethes with quiet violence.

Format: Paperback

All books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.