A Sorrow Beyond Dreams - A Life Story

Informationen zum Autor Peter Handke; Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides; Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim Klappentext 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 ).

Product details

• Authors: Peter Handke, Peter/ Eugenides Handke
• Assisted by: Ralph Manheim (Translation)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2012
• EAN: 9780374533649
• ISBN: 978-0-374-53364-9
• No. of pages: 96
• Series: FSG Classics; FSG Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989)