The Second Sword: A Tale from the Merry Month of May, and My Day in the Other Land: A Tale of Demons
Two Novellas
$26.75
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
10 June 2025
Summary
The Second Sword and My Day in the Other Land are two novellas by the 2019 Nobel laureate Peter Handke.
The first picks up the story where Handke’s last work of fiction, The Fruit Thief, left off. Here a man has returned to his home in the suburbs of Paris, only to soon set out again. Why? We learn, over the course of a story redolent of Handke’s harrowing A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, that he is seeking to avenge his mother, who has been unjustly denounced in the pages of a newspaper. The …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781250371881 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1250371880 |
| Author: | Peter Handke |
| Publisher: | St Martin's Press |
| Imprint: | Picador USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 10 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 154g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
“Well-crafted … Handke’s ill-tempered visions are feverishly thrilling.” –Publishers Weekly
“Everything is in the details, beautifully observed.” –Booklist
About The Author
Peter Handke
Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. His many novels include The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, and The Fruit Thief. Handke is the recipient of literary awards including the Georg Büchner and Franz Kafka Prizes; in 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.”
Krishna Winston is professor emerita of German literature and environmental studies at Wesleyan, and has been translating the work of Peter Handke since 1993. Her many other authors include Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Günter Grass, Christoph Hein, and Werner Herzog.
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