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'The merriest tale of human depravity you will ever read' - Hilary Mantel

Banana Yoshimoto was hailed as a young writer of great talent and great passion whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of modern literature

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The Water Statues Vincent O'Sullivan only to encounter a troubledFamily, 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