The Water Statues Lara Hamza It combines a blistering action

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The Water Statues Lara Hamza It combines a blistering actionFamily, obsession, and privilege boiled down by the icy hot Swiss Italian master stylist Fleur Jaeggy Even among Fleur Jaeggys singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealths odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the various relatives, friends, and servants of a man named Beeklam, a wealthy recluse who keeps statues in