{"product_id":"the-water-statues","title":"The Water Statues","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEven among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Water Statues\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003edramatis personae\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDedicated to Ingeborg Bachmann and fleshed out with Jaeggy's austere yet voluptuous style, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Water Statues\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003ehed: USA, 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003eer: New Directions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePages: 89\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLanguage: English \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN: 9780811229753\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fleur Jaeggy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56692906787147,"sku":null,"price":15.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8755\/1819\/files\/Screenshot_2026-03-04_at_13.53.16.png?v=1772628809","url":"https:\/\/desirelinesbookstore.com\/products\/the-water-statues","provider":"desirelines books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}