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

The Second Sword and My Day in the Other Land are two new 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 Handke's most recently published workand the first to be written after he was awarded the Nobel P

The Second Sword A Tale from the Merry Month of May and My Day in the Other Land A Tale of Demons

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

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Two novellas by Peter Handkehis first new works since he won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Second Sword... Read more

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

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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

    The Second Sword     and My Day in the Other Land are two new 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 Handke's most recently published workand the first to be written after he was awarded the Nobel P

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