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Two novellas by Peter Handkehis first works to be published since he won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Second Sword and My Day in the Other Land are two novellas by the 2019 Nobel laureate Peter Handke. The first picks up the story where Handke's last work of fiction, The Fruit Thief (described in The New York Times as an experience of unadulterated literature), left off. Here a man has returned to his home in the suburbs of Paris, only to soon set out again. Why? We learn, over the course of a story redolent of Handke's harrowing A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, that he is seeking to avenge his mother, who has been unjustly denounced in the pages of a newspaper. The Second Sword is a suspenseful work of self-examination: Will the narrator's journey end in him throwing down the gauntlet?

My Day in the Other Land is the first work written by Handke after he was awarded the Nobel Prize. Evoking imagery fr

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    A Hardback by Peter Handke; Translated from the German by Krishna Winston

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      Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
      Publication Date: 3/18/2024
      ISBN13: 9780374601447, 978-0374601447
      ISBN10: 0374601445

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Two novellas by Peter Handkehis first works to be published since he won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.

      The Second Sword       and My Day in the Other Land are two novellas by the 2019 Nobel laureate Peter Handke. The first picks up the story where Handke's last work of fiction, The Fruit Thief (described in The New York Times as an experience of unadulterated literature), left off. Here a man has returned to his home in the suburbs of Paris, only to soon set out again. Why? We learn, over the course of a story redolent of Handke's harrowing A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, that he is seeking to avenge his mother, who has been unjustly denounced in the pages of a newspaper. The Second Sword is a suspenseful work of self-examination: Will the narrator's journey end in him throwing down the gauntlet?

      My Day in the Other Land is the first work written by Handke after he was awarded the Nobel Prize. Evoking imagery fr

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