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
| ISBN: | 9780241457672 |
| Publication date: | 6th August 2020 |
| Author: | Peter Handke |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 80 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Interior life Fiction in translation |
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
The Left-Handed Woman features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Fiction in translation
The Left-Handed Woman is available in Paperback
The Left-Handed Woman was written by Peter Handke and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
The Left-Handed Woman has 80 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Modern Classics series
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