Travelling light
By: Nicholas Wright
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Description: In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around the dawn of the twentieth century, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph. Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timber merchant, and inspired by Anna, the girl sent to help him make moving pictures of their village, he stumbles on a revolutionary way of storytelling. Forty years on, Motl - now a famed American film director - looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his dreams.
Notes: Previously issued in print: London: Nick Hern Books, 2012.