{"product_id":"the-water-statues","title":"The Water Statues","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Water Statues\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eFleur Jaeggy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780811229753\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNew Directions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2021\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eEven among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, \u003cem\u003eThe Water Statues\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003edramatis personae\u003c\/em\u003e 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 the sea.\u003cbr\u003e Dedicated to Ingeborg Bachmann and fleshed out with Jaeggy's austere yet voluptuous style, \u003cem\u003eThe Water Statues\u003c\/em\u003e--with its band of deracinated, loosely related souls (milling about as often in the distant past as in the mansion's garden full of intoxicated snails)--delivers like a slap an indelible picture of the swampiness of family life.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"The Water Statues | Fleur Jaeggy | Quality | 9780811229753 | New | Fiction 1286861","offer_id":48162467905688,"sku":"1286861","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/31-mqh-Jp9L.jpg?v=1771870076","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/the-water-statues","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}