Moth; Or How I Came to Be with You Again (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781936747573)

Thomas Heise's adventurous Moth; or how I came to be with you again is a densely lyrical poetic narrative. The story follows the narrator's real and imagined journeys through time and space in search of his unknown mother, in flight from his unknown father, and in pursuit of his lost love. Traveling through his past, and across several cities in Europe in the present, he ruminates on the hypnotic rhythm of train travel, insomnia, desire, the nature of memory, and modern art. Moth recalls W.G. Sebald, Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, and especially Antonioni's films, where viewers experience a mysterious sense of washed-out beauty and trouble. Heise's language is precise and his lush, unfolding sentences offer a great, gorgeous pleasure. Moth is a haunting, one-of-a-kind novel that will stay with the reader for a long, long time.

Author: Thomas Heise
ISBN-10: 193674757X
ISBN-13: 9781936747573
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Language: English
Published: 07/02/2013
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.30w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/22/2013
Foreword 05/31/2013