The Water Statues -- Fleur Jaeggy, Paperback Julien Temple Christopher de Hamel's unexpected connections

Christopher de Hamel's unexpected connections and discoveries reveal a passion that crosses the boundaries of time

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The Water Statues -- Fleur Jaeggy, Paperback Julien Temple Christopher de Hamel's unexpected connectionsEven among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth's 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 his villa's flooded basement, where memories shiver in uncertain light and the waters run off to the