A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story - Peter Handke

\n \nNobel Prize winner Peter Handke--the extravagantly talented Austrian playwright of chutzpah, novelist of sensibility, poet of linguistic games (Kirkus)--ponders the life and early death of his mother\n \nThe Sunday edition of the K rntner 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.'\n \nSo opens A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, 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).\n