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A Moment of True Feeling - A Novel by Peter Handke; Ralph Manheim (Translator)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Classics
At the beginning of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novel A Moment of True Feeling, Gregor Keuschnig awakens from a nightmare in which he has committed murder, and announces, From today on, I shall be leading a double life. The duplicity, however, lies only in Keuschnig's mind; his everyday life as t ...Show more
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams - A Life Story by Peter Handke; Jeffrey Eugenides (Introduction by); Ralph Manheim (Translator)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
"The Sunday edition of the K rntner 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, the eminent Austrian novelist and play ...Show more
Across by HANDKE PETER
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Those who gravitate to the regions where fiction, poetry, imaginative flights and speculative fancy converge constitute Handke's natural audience. - Publishers Weekly Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novel Across tells the story of a quiet, organized classics teacher named Andreas Loser. One night, on ...Show more
My Year in the No-Man's-Bay by Peter Handke
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's autobiographical novel My Year in No-Man's Bay is a meditation on two decades of a writer's life culminating in a solitary, sobering year of reckoning" ( Publishers Weekly ).In his most substantial novel to date, Handke tells the story of an Austrian writer - a man much ...Show more
On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House - A Novel by Peter Handke; Krishna Winston (Translator)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A short, powerful new novel by one of the greatest writers in the German language. On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House is Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke's evocative, moving, often fantastic, novel about one man's conflict with himself and his journey toward resolution. During one night shift ...Show more
Quiet Places - Collected Essays by Peter Handke; Krishna Winston (Translator); Ralph Manheim (Translator)
$38.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A career-spanning collection of essays by the Nobel laureate Peter Handke, featuring two new works never before published in English Quiet Places brings together Peter Handke's forays into the border regions of life and story, upending the distinction between literature and the literary essay. Proceedi ...Show more
Repetition by Handke, Peter
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 'Repetition made a great and, as I have since learned, lasting impression on me' W. G. Sebald Filip Kobal, an Austrian teenager, is on the trail of his missing older brother Gregor, who he never knew. All he has is two of Gregor's books: a school copy book, and ...Show more
The Great Fall by Peter Handke; Krishna Winston (Translator)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
"On the day of the Great Fall he left nothing, nothing at all behind." The latest work by Peter Handke, one of our greatest living writers, chronicles a day in life of an aging actor as he makes his way on foot from the outskirts of a great metropolis into its center. He is scheduled to receive a presti ...Show more
The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One evening, when Marianne and her husband, Bruno, are dining out together to celebrate his return from a business trip, Marianne listens to him speak and realizes suddenly yet finally that Bruno will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, she will be deserted. And instinctively Mariann ...Show more
The Left-Handed Woman - A Novel by Peter Handke; Ralph Manheim (Translator)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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.One evening, when Marianne and her husband, Bruno, are dining out together to celebrate his return from a business trip, M ...Show more
The Ride Across Lake Constance and Other Plays by Peter Handke; Michael Roloff (Translator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A collection of six plays by Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke, spanning the early years of the Austrian playwright's career The first full-length play The Ride Across Lake Constance, is one of Handke's best-known works. It deals directly with one of Handke's favorite themes: the realities of theater itse ...Show more
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