{"product_id":"9780811225984","title":"I Am the Brother of XX","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSensational, hyper-distilled new stories by the inimitable Fleur Jaeggy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFleur Jaeggy is often noted for her terse and telegraphic style, which brews up a haunting paradox: despite a zero-at-the-bone baseline, her fiction is intensely moving. As April Bernard commented in \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e, how work “could be so chilly and so passionate at the same time is a puzzle, but that icy-hot quality is only one of its distinctions.” Here, in her newest collection, \u003ci\u003eI Am the Brother of XX\u003c\/i\u003e—whether the stories involve famous writers (Calvino, Ingeborg Bachmann, Joseph Brodsky) or baronesses, thirteenth-century visionaries or tormented siblings raised in elite Swiss boarding schools—Jaeggy contrives to somehow stealthily possess your mind. Her champagne gothic worlds are seething with quiet violence—and unforgettable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020636995824,"sku":"9780811225984","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811225984_p0.jpg?v=1763743494","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811225984","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}