Originally published in German as Unterm Neomond. Erzählungen by Wolfgang Hilbig

Copyright © 1982, S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main

Translation © 2024 by Isabel Fargo Cole

Two Lines Press

582 Market Street, Suite 700, San Francisco, CA 94104

www.twolinespress.com

ISBN: 978-1-949641-61-5

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-949641-62-2

Cover design by Andrew Walters

Typeset by Wengrow

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hilbig, Wolfgang, 1941-2007, author. | Cole, Isabel Fargo, 1973- translator.

Title: Under the neomoon / Wolfgang Hilbig ; translated from German by Isabel Fargo Cole.

Other titles: Unterm Neomond. English

Description: San Francisco, CA : Two Lines Press, 2024. | Summary: “In these early prose writings, Wolfgang Hilbig (1941-2007) summons menacing visions of smoldering factory pits, rampant nature, and split identities”-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2023056115 (print) | LCCN 2023056116 (ebook) | ISBN 9781949641615 (paperback) | ISBN 9781949641622 (ebook)

Subjects: LCGFT: Short stories.

Classification: LCC PT2668.I323 U5813 2024 (print) | LCC PT2668.I323 (ebook) | DDC 833/.914--dc23/eng/20231211

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023056115

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023056116

This publication is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. The translation of this book was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut.