A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (Pushkin Blues): Peter Handke - Softcover

Peter Handke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782276084 ISBN 13: 9781782276081

Publisher: Pushkin Press, 2019

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2019

'One of the best and most important books written in German in our time' Karl Ove Knausgaard

'A devastating sliver of a book' Maggie Nelson

'Moving and beautifully realized... nearly perfect' New York Times Book Review

'Handke's sharp eye is always finding a strange beauty' Jeffrey Eugenides

This is Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost intolerable horror of her suicide, the eminent Austrian novelist and playwright sets out to piece together the facts of her life. What emerges is a loving portrait of inconsolable grief, and of a woman whose lively spirit has been crushed not once but over and over again by the miseries of her place and time. In stark, lucid prose, Handke reckons with his mother's life as it spans the rise of fascism, World War Two and post-war suffering.

Review:

'Moving and beautifully realized... nearly perfect' -- New York Times Book Review

'One of the best and most important books written in German in our time' -- Karl Ove Knausgaard

'A devastating sliver of a book' -- Maggie Nelson

'Handke's sharp eye is always finding a strange beauty' --Jeffrey Eugenides

About the Author:

Peter Handke, dramatist, novelist, poet, essayist and writer of screenplays, was born in Griffen, Austria in 1942. Handke has been awarded many literary prizes, including the Schiller Prize in 1995, the Kafka Prize in 2009 and the International Ibsen Prize in 2014. He now lives and works in Paris.

• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1782276084
• ISBN 13: 9781782276081
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80