The LeftHanded Woman by Peter Handke Paperback Book 9780241457672

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATUREOne of Europes 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 freedomKnifelike 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