A review by obsessioncollector
The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy

challenging mysterious reflective

4.0

"The children — you, madam, must be acquainted with some — often say that they want to go back to another world, one they’ve known, full of incredible paradigms of perfection. The boy remembered well the beauty he hadn’t been able to hold on to, more than once he’d said that he wanted to go back there. He had a horror of anything hereditary, because whatever comes to us by natural inheritance belongs to the dead."

This was so cryptic... Between this and Destroy, She Said, what an oblique end to the year