A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story
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Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke--"the extravagantly talented Austrian playwright of chutzpah, novelist of sensibility, poet of linguistic games" (Kirkus)--ponders the life and early death of his mother"The Sunday edition of the Kärntner Volkszeitung carried the following item under 'Local News': 'In the village of A. (G. township), a housewife, aged 51, committed suicide on Friday night by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.'"So opens A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, Handke's reckoning with his mother's life--which spanned the rise of the Nazis, World War II, and postwar suffering--and death. Both stark and lyrical, full of love, anger, admiration, and a keen sense of history, this slim book reveals Handke at his most lucid and direct. It is the most moving and accessible work in his distinguished career; it is "indispensable" (Bill Marx, The Boston Globe). von Handke, Peter
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Peter Handke; Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides; Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim
- Hardcover -
- Erschienen 2021
- Jonathan Cape
- Taschenbuch
- 210 Seiten
- Erschienen 2017
- Flatiron Books
- Hardcover
- 210 Seiten
- Erschienen 2023
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