{"product_id":"sweet-days-of-discipline-by-fleur-jaeggy","title":"Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the offhanded remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Frédérique, the apparently perfect new girl. In Tim Parks’s consummate translation with its “spare, haunting quality of a prose poem” (\u003cem\u003eTLS\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cem\u003eSweet Days of Discipline\u003c\/em\u003e is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFleur Jaeggy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1940– ) was born in Zurich, Switzerland and lives in Milano, Italy. In addition to her own work, which has been acclaimed as “small scale, intense, and impecably focused,” (\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e) and “addictive” (\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e), she has translated the works of Marcel Schwob and Thomas de Quincey into Italian as well as written texts on them and Keats. The London \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e named Jaeggy’s \u003cem\u003eS.S. Proleterka\u003c\/em\u003e a Best Book of the Year: and her \u003cem\u003eSweet Days of Discipline\u003c\/em\u003e won the Premio Bagutta as well as the Premio Speciale Rapallo.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52213093892405,"sku":null,"price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/discipline.jpg?v=1768513226","url":"https:\/\/wombhousebooks.com\/products\/sweet-days-of-discipline-by-fleur-jaeggy","provider":"Womb House Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}