# I am the Brother of XX

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- Authors: [Fleur Jaeggy](https://www.bookquiver.com/fleur-jaeggy)
- Publisher: And Other Stories
- ISBN: 978-19-1150-802-1
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2017-07-06
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Winner of the John Florio Prize for its translationA wife is suspended in a bird cage; a thirteenth-century visionary senses the foreskin of Christ on her tongue: Fleur Jaeggy’s gothic imagination knows no limits. Whether telling of mystics, tormented families or famously private writers, Jaeggy’s terse, telegraphic writing is always psychologically clear-eyed and deeply moving, always one step ahead, or to the side, of her readers’ expectations. In this, her long-awaited return, we read of an ‘eerie maleficent calm, a brutal calm’, and recognise the timbre of a writer for whom a paradoxical world seethes with quiet violence.