A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for A Sorrow Beyond Dreams An autobiography where the author confronts his own life as a child of post-war Germany and his mother's life and death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost intolerable horror of her suicide, he sets out to piece together the facts of her life, as she might have seen them.
Full description- Publisher: PUSHKIN PRESS
- Published: 27 February 2006
- Format: Paperback 112 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
- ISBN 13: 9781901285178 ISBN 10: 1901285170
- Sales rank: 213,162
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Full description for A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide." So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost intolerable horror of her suicide, he sets out to piece together the facts of her life, as he perceives them. What emerges is a loving portrait of inconsolable grief, a woman whose lively spirit has been crushed not once but over and over again by the miseries of her place and time. Yet well into middle age, living in the Austrian village of her birth, she still remains haunted by her dreams. Translated by Ralph Manheim
