{"product_id":"9780374533649","title":"A Sorrow Beyond Dreams : A Life Story","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA Sorrow Beyond Dreams\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Peter Handke\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNobel Prize winner Peter Handke--“the extravagantly talented Austrian playwright of chutzpah, novelist of sensibility, poet of linguistic games” (\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e)--ponders the life and early death of his mother\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Sunday edition of the \u003ci\u003eKärntner Volkszeitung \u003c\/i\u003ecarried 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.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo opens \u003ci\u003eA Sorrow Beyond Dreams, \u003c\/i\u003eHandke'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, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Moving and beautifully realized . . . Nearly perfect.” —\u003ci\u003eRichard Locke, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Sorrow Beyond Dreams \u003c\/i\u003eis Handke's masterpiece, a short, concentrated, mysteriously exhaustive portrait of his mother, from whom history and circumstance have removed most traces of an identity.” —\u003ci\u003eJ. S. Marcus , The New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eA Sorrow Beyond Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, the author confronts his mother's suicide in a compelling story that is ‘like an explanation of a recurrent dream, a dream so vividly expressed it becomes our dream.'” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner Nobel Prize in Literature (2019)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374533649\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40592852615374,"sku":"9780374533649","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_395623e2-3c5b-4033-9122-3f00756220bf.jpg?v=1637775858","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374533649","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}