MOHR

A love story of historic proportions

Mohr: A Novel by acclaimed novelist Frederick Reuss is about a love between a man and wife marked by a deeply troubled and world-testing time. With the sort of enthralling step that always marks his work, Reuss allows this story to rise from a cache of photographs uncovered in Germany — photographs from the 1920s and '30s of the exiled Jewish playwright and novelist Max Mohr; Kaethe, the beautiful wife he left behind; and Eva, their daughter, who would never understand. Quotes “Nothing less than Orphic.”— John Berger,Booker Prize Winner Reuss “writes with Jamesian complexity about states of mind and character [and] of their days and dismays with brilliant understanding and a painter's rich detail.”— The New York Times “A quiet triumph.”— The San Francisco Chronicle “Mohr, as imagined by Reuss, is not a gloomy character. He has wit, charm, elegance, and existential lightness, as does the novel.”— The New York Times Book Review Nicolas Humbert, a Munich-based film-maker and Mohr's grandson, has made a well-received film, Wolfsgrub. It is a documentary about his mother, Mohr's daughter, who spent the war years hiding in the house. The film has won awards and been shown often on German television. http://www.artfilm.ch/wolfsgrub.php Frederick Reuss, 1960, was born in Addis Abeba and grew up in India, Germany and USA. He studied Philosophy in Tuebingen and speaks German. He lives in Washington D.C. with his wife and two daughters and is the acclaimed author of Horace Afoot (Scherz Verlag, Es gibt keine Strassenbahn in Oblivion), Henry of Atlantic City, and The Wasties.