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...

"Reading time is approximately four hours. Remembering time, as for its author, the rest of one's life," said Joseph Brodsky of Fleur Jaeggy's novel, Sweet Days of Displine. Now Jaeggy has come up with seven stories, each at some deep...

"Die seligen Jahre der Züchtigung" von Fleur Jaeggy ist ein poetischer und atmosphärisch dichter Roman, der in einem strengen Schweizer Internat spielt. Die Geschichte wird aus der Perspektive eines jungen Mädchens erzählt, das sich an...