小說/散文

Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story
出版社： Farrar, Straus & Giroux
書林書號：
20259051
作者：
Handke, Peter/ Eugenides, Jeffrey/ Manheim, Ralph
定價：
490
會員價：
$417
ISBN：
9780374533649
出版年份：
2012
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
0
  • 本書介紹
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 mother

"The 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 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, The Boston Globe)
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