A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

Name: A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
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SKU: 9781782276081
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By Peter Handke

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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke explores the life and tragic death of the author's mother. The narrative delves into the post-World War II struggles of an Austrian woman, revealing her challenges, aspirations, and eventual despair. It offers a poignant reflection on memory, family, and the impact of personal and societal change.
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

A beautiful, heart-wrenching attempt to come to terms with a mother's suicide by one of Austria's greatest living writers.

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My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide.

So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost intolerable horror of her suicide, he sets out to piece together the facts of her life, as he perceives them.

What emerges is a loving portrait of inconsolable grief, a woman whose lively spirit has been crushed not once but over and over again by the miseries of her place and time. Yet well into middle age, living in the Austrian village of her birth, she still remains haunted by her dreams.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781782276081

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 November 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pushkin Press

Contributors:

Translated by Ralph Manheim
Translated by Ralph Manheim
Translated by Ralph Manheim

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 80

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About the Author

Peter Handke, dramatist, novelist, poet, essayist and writer of screenplays, was born in Griffen, Austria in 1942. Handke has been awarded many literary prizes, including the Schiller Prize in 1972 and the Kafka Prize in 1979, which he turned down. He now lives and works in Paris.

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