Moss

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.