Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enough: ‘At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell’. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here. With the off-handed knowingness of a remorseless young Eve, the narrator describes life as a captive of the school and her designs to win the affections of the seemingly perfect new girl, Frederique. As she broods over her schemes as well as on the nature of control and madness, the novel gathers a suspended, unsettling energy.
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About the author
Born in Manchester in 1954, Tim Parks is a novelist, memoirist and translator. He came across Sweet Days of Discipline while browsing in an Italian bookshop. His highly praised translation subsequently won the John Florio Prize.
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 102 ● ISBN 9781911508199 ● File size 0.3 MB ● Translator Tim Parks ● Publisher And Other Stories ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2018 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5492469 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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