Michael Lentz's Ingeborg Bachmann Prize-winning novella, MOTHERDYING, confronts the inexpressible pain of losing a mother.

It is a profound chronicle of a dying body and a grieving mind. Like the works of Ornette Coleman or Samuel Beckett, MOTHERDYING is a truly avant-garde achievement, forging new expressive possibilities in literature.

isolarii are island books—singular worlds, encapsulated. Together, they assemble disparate writers, artists, filmmakers and architects to help us navigate the world anew...

Author: Michael Lentz
Editors: Sebastian Clark / Luca Mantero
Series: isolarii 15
Publisher: isolarii
Page Count: 260pp
Size: 2.75 x 4.25
Notes: paperback, dust jacket
In-Shop Arrival: October 2025