{"product_id":"i-am-the-brother-of-xx-by-fleur-jaeggy","title":"I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFleur Jaeggy is often noted for her terse and telegraphic style, which somehow brews up a profound paradox that seems bent on haunting the reader: despite a sort of zero-at-the-bone baseline, her fiction is weirdly also incredibly moving. How does she do it? No one knows. But here, in her newest collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eI Am the Brother of XX\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, she does it again. Like a magician or a master criminal, who can say how she gets away with it, but whether the stories involve famous writers (Calvino, Ingeborg Bachmann, Joseph Brodsky) or baronesses or 13th-century visionaries or tormented siblings bred up in elite Swiss boarding schools, they somehow steal your heart. And they don’t rest at that, but endlessly disturb your mind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53098156458293,"sku":null,"price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/IamTheBrotherOfXX.jpg?v=1783304087","url":"https:\/\/wombhousebooks.com\/products\/i-am-the-brother-of-xx-by-fleur-jaeggy","provider":"Womb House Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}