An aging botanist withdraws to the seclusion of his family’s vacation home in the German countryside. In his final days, he realizes that his life’s work of scientific classification has led him astray from the hidden secrets of the natural world. As his body slows and his mind expands, he recalls his family’s escape from budding fascism in Germany, his father’s need to prune and control, and his tender moments with first loves. But as his disintegration into moss begins, his fascination with botany culminates in a profound understanding of life’s meaning and his own mortality.
Visionary and poetic, Moss explores our fundamental human desires for both transcendence and connection and serves as a testament to our tenuous and intimate relationship with nature.
Klaus Modick is an award-winning author and translator who has published over a dozen novels as well as short stories, essays, and poetry. His translations into German include work by William Goldman, William Gaddis, and Victor LaValle, and he has taught at Dartmouth College, Middlebury College, and several other universities in the United States, Japan, and Germany. Moss, Modick’s debut novel, is his first book to be published in English. He lives in Oldenburg, Germany.
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Klaus Modick is an award-winning author and translator who has published over a dozen novels as well as short stories, essays, and poetry. His translations into German include work by William Goldman, William Gaddis, and Victor LaValle, and he has taught at Dartmouth College, Middlebury College, and several other universities in the United States, Japan, and Germany. Moss, Modick’s debut novel, is his first book to be published in English. He lives in Oldenburg, Germany.
David Herman is the recipient of the Ezra Pound Award for Literary Translation from the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - PROLIFIC, ENGLISH-SPEAKING GERMAN AUTHOR MAKES ENGLISH-LANGUAGE DEBUT: Klaus Modick is a best-selling German author whose work has been translated into ten languages, but none of his novels have been published in English until now. Fluent in English, Modick has lived in the United States, taught at Dartmouth and Middlebury Colleges, and will be available for interviews and appearances.A CLASSIC OF ECO-FICTION: When it was originally published in Germany in the years between the partial meltdown of one of the reactors at Three Mile Island and the catastrophic accident at Chernobyl Moss also coincided with the emergence of the Green Party and was one of the foundational novels in the emerging eco-literature genre, which has begun to find passionate English-language readers. Fans of Richard Powers s The Overstory and other avid eco-fiction devotees will be delighted by this environmentally astute novel.IN THE TRADITION OF PAUL HARDING S TINKERS: Like Bellevue Literary Press s breakaway bestseller, the equally short, Pulitzer Prize winning debut novel Tinkers, Moss employs lyrical prose to draw the reader into the disintegration of a dying man s mind and body. Modick shares Harding s talent for evoking the resurgence of memories at the end of life in a way that is transcendent and moving. Artikel-Nr. 9781942658726
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