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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, Handkes reckoning with his mothers 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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