The Water Statues

by Fleur Jaeggy

Book Overview

Even among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, The Water Statues 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 dramatis personae 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811229750
• ISBN13: 9780811229753
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 7.1"