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Michael Lentz – Motherdying

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One of the most immediate things pain teaches us is that there are no words to express pain. It is precisely this that makes Michael Lentz’s Motherdying such an achievement, for its subject matter is the universal and inescapable pain of losing one’s mother. Now translated into English for the first time, Motherdying was recognised in Germany as a work of literary brilliance. In 2001, it won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, with critics acknowledging it as a necessary break from the platitudes of mourning. Motherdying is at once a chronicle of the dying body and a psychic inventory of grief. The n

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