A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story
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 motherThe 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…
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Weitere Autoren: Eugenides, Jeffrey (Solist) / Manheim, Ralph (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-374-53364-9
- EAN: 9780374533649
- Produktnummer: 12506552
- Verlag: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 69 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B14.2 cm x D1.0 cm 103 g
- Gewicht: 103
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Peter Handke; Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides; Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim
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