"The Sunday edition of the "Karntner 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 playwright Peter Handke's reckoning with his mother's
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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