{"product_id":"9780811229036","title":"Sweet Days of Discipline","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn the heels of \u003cem\u003eI Am the Brother of XX\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThese Possible Lives\u003c\/em\u003e, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the apparently perfect new girl.  In Tim Parks' consummate translation (with its \"spare, haunting quality of a prose poem,\" TLS), \u003cem\u003eSweet Days of Discipline\u003c\/em\u003e is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370125103165,"sku":"9780811229036","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780811229036_p0.jpg?v=1771580357","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780811229036","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}