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A house-husband's life turns upside-down in this tale of death and resurrection. When José's fireworks factory job ends explosively, he becomes apathetic. But soon he gets a new lust for life, and he discovers he possesses a gruesome talent. Unexpected and gripping, Petite Fleur's Aira-esque flights of fancy will have you dying with laughter. A wife is suspended in a bird cage; a thirteenth-century visionary senses the foreskin of Christ on her tongue: Fleur Jaeggy's gothic imagination knows no limits. Whether telling of mystics, tormented families or famously private writers, Jaeggy's terse, telegraphic writing is always psychologically clear-eyed and deeply moving, always one step ahead, or to the side, of her readers'expectations. In this, her long-awaited return, we read of an'eerie maleficent calm, a brutal calm', and recognise the timbre of a writer for whom a paradoxical world seethes with quiet violence. When José's Fireworks Factory Job Ends Explosively, His Wife Laura Must Return To Work. Recovering From His Initial Apathy, He Makes Friends With His Jazz-loving Neighbor. But As José Uncovers A Gruesome Talent, Life, Death, And Resurrection Converge. Written As One Single, Hypnotic Paragraph, Petite Fleur Harnesses The Unpredictability Of César Aira And The Mysticism Of Leo Tolstoy In A Dissonant Riff On Suburban Life. Iosi Havilio ; Translated By Lorna Scott Fox. Translated From The Spanish. When his fireworks factory job ends explosively, Jose uncovers surprising new talents: childcare, cleaning, gardening, he excels at it all. But hanging out with his jazz-loving neighbour, Jose unearths one last talent, and life, death and domesticity converge. Told in a single, hypnotic paragraph, Petite Fleur is a discordant riff on suburban life.