A Sorrow Beyond Dreams - (FSG Classics) by Peter Handke (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke--"the extravagantly talented Austrian playwright of chutzpah, novelist of sensibility, poet of linguistic games" (<i>Kirkus</i>)--ponders the life and early death of his mother</b> <p/>The Sunday edition of the <i>Kärntner Volkszeitung </i>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.' <p/>So opens <i>A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, </i>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, <i>The Boston Globe</i>).</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Moving and beautifully realized . . . Nearly perfect." --<i>Richard Locke, The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"<i>A Sorrow Beyond Dreams </i>is Handke's masterpiece, a short, concentrated, mysteriously exhaustive portrait of his mother, from whom history and circumstance have removed most traces of an identity." --<i>J. S. Marcus, The New York Review of Books</i> <p/>"In <i>A Sorrow Beyond Dreams</i>, the author confronts his mother's suicide in a compelling story that is 'like an explanation of a recurrent dream, a dream so vividly expressed it becomes our dream.'" --<i>Chicago Sun-Times</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Peter Handke</b> was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. A novelist, playwright, and translator, he is the author of such acclaimed works as <i>The Moravian Night</i>, <i>A Sorrow Beyond Dreams</i>, <i>The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick</i>, and <i>Repetition</i>. The recipient of multiple literary awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize and the International Ibsen Award, Handke is also a filmmaker. He wrote and directed adaptations of his novels <i>The Left-Handed Woman</i> and <i>Absence</i>, and co-wrote the screenplays for Wim Wenders' <i>Wrong Movie </i>and <i>Wings of Desire.</i> He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019.
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