Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy was originally published in Italian in 1989.  The translation is by Tim Parks, and the book is published by And Other Stories.   The novel concerns the early years in the life of a young student at an exclusive boarding school in the Swiss mountains.  Throughout the book, her strained relationship with her environment, her peers, and her inner self are subject to cold examination. In crystalline, almost clinical, prose, all is dissected and laid bare - the innocent exterior of school life is peeled away, and the rotting core exposed.