WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'One of Europe's great writers'Karl Ove KnausgaardOne 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 UpdikeTranslated by Ralph Manheim
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241457672Number of pages: 80Weight: 67 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 4 mm
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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
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