Modick Klaus - Moss - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 La Valle 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.
Title: Moss
Author(s): Modick Klaus
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Barcode: 9781942658726
Pages: 192 Pages, No
Publication Date: 8/25/2020
Category: Religious & Spiritual Fiction