The Water StatuesFamily, 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

delving into its complexities

In between are stories in the new post-war South Wales

examine each broken shard of her shattered family relations and reassemble it into a new shape in a new world

co-written with Digby Fairweather - 206 pages plus 8 pages of gloss photos

and new directions in their own

Bruce Weigl

The issue opens with poems by the late Lebanese poet Bassam Hajjar

strong winds

The mother figure in her new collection The Huntress appears as a ghost orchid

This sequence is drawn from the story of Blodeuedd

A wealth of conscientiously researched detail is related with the trenchant and pithy humour for which the author is well-known

this book is a work of extraordinary sincerity