Old rendering plant
By: Wolfgang Hilbig ; translated by Isabel Fargo Cole
Contributors: Cole, Isabel Fargo, 1973- translator
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9781931883672
Subjects: Teenage boys; Coal-fired power plants; Fiction
Work titles: Weiber, Alte Abdeckerei, Die Kunde von den Bäumen
Description: 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.
Notes: Translation from the German of: Weiber, Alte Abdeckerei, Die Kunde von den Bäumen.