The Left-Handed Woman

Peter Handke author Ralph Manheim translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:6th Aug '20

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A young woman faces loneliness and alienation on a journey to find her own life outside of being a wife and mother in Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke's The Left-Handed Woman.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

'One of Europe's great writers' Karl Ove Knausgaard


One evening Marianne, a suburban housewife living in an identikit bungalow, is struck by the realization that her husband will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, she will be deserted. So she sends him away, knowing she must fend for herself and her young son. As she adjusts to her disorienting new life alone, what she thought was fear slowly starts to feel like freedom.

'Knifelike clarity of evocation ... Handke is a kind of nature poet, a romantic whose exacerbated nerves cling like pained ivy to the landscape' John Updike

Translated by Ralph Manheim

Handke became the enfant terrible of the European avant-garde, denouncing all social, psychological and historical categories of experience as species of linguistic fraud. But [he] has aged well and now...is regarded as one of the most important writers in German -- Richard Locke * The New York Times *

ISBN: 9780241457672

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 4mm

Weight: 67g

80 pages