SS Proleterka

by Fleur Jaeggy

Compressed, delicate, but brutally precise, S. S. Proleterka is a fiercely boiled-down bildungsroman from the presiding genius of dry-ice, Fleur Jaeggy. The S. S. Proleterka is a Yugoslavian ship; our fifteen-year-old protagonist and her financially ruined, distant, yet somehow beloved father, Johannes, take a cruise together on it to Greece. With a strange telescopic perspective, narrated from the day she receives her father's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811215504
• ISBN13: 9780811215503
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.0"