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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

''One of Europe''s great writers'' Karl Ove Knausgaard

One evening Marianne, a suburban housewife living in an identikit bungalow, is struck by the realization that her husband will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, she will be deserted. So she sends him away, knowing she must fend for herself and her young son. As she adjusts to her disorienting new life alone, what she thought was fear slowly starts to feel like freedom.

''Knifelike clarity of evocation ... Handke is a kind of nature poet, a romantic whose exacerbated nerves cling like pained ivy to the landscape'' John Updike

Translated by Ralph Manheim



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Handke became the enfant terrible of the European avant-garde, denouncing all social, psychological and historical categories of experience as species of linguistic fraud. But [he] has aged well and now...is regarded as one of the most important writers in German -- Richard Locke * The New York Times *

The LeftHanded Woman

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 6 August 2020
      ISBN-13 9780241457672
      978-0241457672
      ISBN-10 024145767X
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      Contemporary Fiction Books by Peter Handke

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

      ''One of Europe''s great writers'' Karl Ove Knausgaard

      One evening Marianne, a suburban housewife living in an identikit bungalow, is struck by the realization that her husband will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, she will be deserted. So she sends him away, knowing she must fend for herself and her young son. As she adjusts to her disorienting new life alone, what she thought was fear slowly starts to feel like freedom.

      ''Knifelike clarity of evocation ... Handke is a kind of nature poet, a romantic whose exacerbated nerves cling like pained ivy to the landscape'' John Updike

      Translated by Ralph Manheim



      Trade Review
      Handke became the enfant terrible of the European avant-garde, denouncing all social, psychological and historical categories of experience as species of linguistic fraud. But [he] has aged well and now...is regarded as one of the most important writers in German -- Richard Locke * The New York Times *

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