{"product_id":"old-rendering-plant-paperback","title":"Old Rendering Plant - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWolfgang Hilbig\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eIsabel Fargo Cole\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat falsehoods do we believe as children? And what happens when we realize they are lies--possibly heinous ones? In \u003ci\u003eOld Rendering Plant\u003c\/i\u003e Wolfgang Hilbig turns his febrile, hypnotic prose to the intersection of identity, language, and history's darkest chapters, immersing readers in the odors and oozings of a butchery that has for years dumped biological waste into a river. It starts when a young boy becomes obsessed with an empty and decayed coal plant, coming to believe that it is tied to mysterious disappearances throughout the countryside. But as a young man, with the building now turned into an abattoir processing dead animals, he revisits this place and his memories of it, realizing just how much he has missed. Plumbing memory's mysteries while evoking historic horrors, Hilbig gives us a gothic testament for the silenced and the speechless. With a tone indebted to Poe and a syntax descended from Joyce, this suggestive, menacing tale refracts the lost innocence of youth through the heavy burdens of maturity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWolfgang Hilbig\u003c\/b\u003e (1941-2007) was one of the major German writers to emerge in the postwar era. Though raised in East Germany, he proved so troublesome to the authorities that in 1985 he was granted permission to emigrate west. The author of over 20 books, he received virtually all of Germany's major literary prizes, capped by the 2002 Georg Büchner Prize, Germany's highest literary honor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsabel Fargo Cole\u003c\/b\u003e is a U.S.-born, Berlin-based writer and translator. Her translations include \u003ci\u003eBoys and Murderers\u003c\/i\u003e by Hermann Ungar (Twisted Spoon Press, 2006), \u003ci\u003eAll the Roads Are Open\u003c\/i\u003e by Annemarie Schwarzenbach (Seagull Books, 2011), \u003ci\u003eThe Jew Car\u003c\/i\u003e by Franz Fühmann (Seagull Books, 2013), and \u003ci\u003eThe Sleep of the Righteous\u003c\/i\u003e by Wolfgang Hilbig. The recipient of a prestigious PEN\/Heim Translation Grant in 2013, she is the initiator and co-editor of No-mans-land.org, an online magazine for new German literature in English.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 6.9 x 4.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 07, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700554567743,"sku":"9781931883672","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/cc9d538ae72291ead8f738d600c32ab4.webp?v=1765017203","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/old-rendering-plant-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}