The Story
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 Frederique, 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.
Paperback | 112 pages | 5.10" x 8.00"
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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 Frederique, 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.
Paperback | 112 pages | 5.10" x 8.00"
