The Water Statues Lara Hamza Perhaps you had a demon

Perhaps you had a demon then lost it

Chris Searle

Jonathan Wilson is the author of the biography Marc Chagall

It combines a blistering action thriller set in the streets of Zurich and on the lakes and wooded slopes of Switzerland with a compulsive and convincing account of first century Romano-Judaean politics and the real reason for Pontius Pilate’s condemnation and execution of Christ

The Water Statues Lara Hamza Perhaps you had a demonFamily, 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