Called -an artist of immense stature- by 2015 International Man Booker Prize-winning author Laszlo Krasznahorkai, and placed alongside W.G. Sebald by The New York Times, Wolfgang Hilbig is a master of using obsessive, hypnotic prose to explore the intersections of identity, consciousness, our frail bodies, and history's darkest chapters. Now Two Lines Press presents one of his bleakest and most powerful works. One day, a boy follows the odors, oozings, and grime of a polluted creek to the rendering plant that has spewed animal refuse into it for years. He becomes obsessed with the poor...