BOOKS by Peter Handke

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1	Voyage to the Sonorous Land, or the Art of Asking and the Hour We Knew Nothing O more books like this by Peter Handke, Gitta Honneger (Translator), Ms. Gitta Honegger (Translator) add to wishlist Two plays by Handke. see all copies from $15.72! new only from $15.72!
2	On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House more books like this by Peter Handke, Krishna Winston (Translator) add to wishlist A short, powerful new novel by one of the greatest writers in the German language "On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House" is Peter Handke's evocative, moving, often fantastic, novel about one man's conflict with himself and his journey toward resolution. During one night shift, an unnamed, middle-aged pharmacist in Taxham, an isolated suburb of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.89! \| first editions
3	Slow homecoming more books like this by Peter Handke add to wishlist Three novels and a dramatic poem, including THE LONG WAY AROUND (1979), in which an Austrian geologist in Alaska loses his spacial sense; THE LESSON OF SAINTE VICTOIRE (1985), about a writer who can perceive color but not feel anything toward it, a missing sense that gradually returns through his interactions with nature and with other people; and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The goalie's anxiety at the penalty kick more books like this by Peter Handke add to wishlist The first of Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick "is a true modern classic that "portrays the...breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus's "The Stranger"" (Richard Locke, "The New York Times). "The self-destruction of a soccer goalie turned construction worker who wanders aimlessly ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $6.90! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Crossing the Sierra de Gredos by Peter Handke, Krishna Winston (Translator) add to wishlist In this visionary novel, Handke offers descriptions of objects, relationships, and events that teach readers a renewed way of seeing. Following humankinds ancient quest for love, this book is peopled with memorable characters and universal adventures. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.62! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Once Again for Thucydides more books like this by Peter Handke, Tess Lewis (Translator) add to wishlist Twelve short journals Handke kept on his travels around the world, each concentrating on observations of seemingly insignificant things--snow melting in a garden, a shoeshine man--that sum up his experience, and always hint at the unknown and the mysterious. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Kaspar and other plays. more books like this by Peter Handke add to wishlist "Kaspar," Peter Handke's first full-length drama--hailed in Europe as "the play of the decade" and compared in importance to "Waiting for Godot"--is the story of an autistic adolescent who finds himself at a complete existential loss on the stage, with but a single sentence to call his own. Drilled by prompters who use terrifyingly funny logical ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.90! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Handke Plays: 1: Offending the Audience, Self-Accusation, Kaspar, My Foot My Tutor, the Ride Across Lake Constance, and They Are Dying Out more books like this by Peter Handke add to wishlist Peter Handke's work is amongst the most strikingly original of all post-war European writing (Times Educational Supplement) Offending the Audience is "a dissection of our expectations about what ought to happen in the theatre." Self-Accusation is "a cunning and ironic attack on bureaucratic moral guilt" (Observer); Kaspar is based on the true ... see all copies from $26.90! new only from $81.88!
9	A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story more books like this by Peter Handke add to wishlist After his mother?s suicide, Austrian novelist and playwright Peter Handke wanted to set down what he knew, or could say, about her life and the causes of her death before ?the dull speechlessness ... the extreme speechlessness? of grief took hold forever. The result is an unsparing, deeply moving elegy in which writing keeps vigil at the limits of ... see all copies from $4.61! new only from $7.45! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Wunschloses Ungluck more books like this by Peter Handke add to wishlist This short novel by Peter Handke is the biography of the narrator's mother. It is set against the backdrop of events in Austrian history, with emphasis upon the "Anschluss" of 1938 and the resulting hardships endured by rural women. These pressures, in the case of the narrator's mother, resulted in her suicide. This text, aimed at A level and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	My Year in the No-Man's-Bay more books like this by Peter Handke, Krishna Winston (Translator) add to wishlist This novel is a meditation on one year in a writer's life, specifically his preoccupations with Roman law, the poetry of Hölderlin, hunting wild mushrooms, and making the right decision about where to live. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.98! \| first editions
12 view cover	Contemporary German Stories more books like this by Peter Handke, M Kruger, A Leslie Willson (Editor) add to wishlist This volume contains 22 stories and novellas, many appearing in English for the first time. Among the authors represented are Peter Handke, Alfred Andersch, Stefan Andres, Jurgen Becker, Ulla Merkewicz, Elisabeth Borchers, Gisela Elsner and Max von der Grun. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $15.35! \| SVS
13	Der Himmel über Berlin : ein Filmbuch more books like this by Wim Wenders, Peter Handke add to wishlist see all copies from $22.26! new only from $37.05!
14	A Moment of True Feeling by Peter Handke add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
15	Publikumsbeschimpfung Und Andere Sprechstücke by Peter Handke add to wishlist see all copies from $9.93! new only from $31.28!
16	Three by Peter Handke more books like this by Peter Handke add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
17	The Ride Across Lake Constance and Other Plays more books like this by Peter Handke add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
18	Two Novels by Peter Handke more books like this by Peter Handke add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $75.55! \| first editions
19	Nonsense and happiness more books like this by Peter Handke, Michael Roloff add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
20	The weight of the world more books like this by Peter Handke add to wishlist These very postmodern journal entries document their subject's life, which includes a lover, a child, an illness, move to a new house, and the process of writing. see all copies from $4.46! first editions
21	Langsame Heimkehr : Erzählung by Peter Handke add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! new only from $34.20! \| first editions
22	3 X Handke more books like this by Peter Handke add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
23	The ride across Lake Constance more books like this by Peter Handke add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! first editions
24 view cover	The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling more books like this by Peter Handke, Krishna Winston (Translator), Ralph Manheim (Translator) add to wishlist These three brilliant, witty, and highly original essays explore tiredness, digressions, boredom, the Beatles, Handke's childhood, and the nostalgic search for a particular kind of juke box, among many other subjects. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
25	The innerworld of the outerworld of the innerworld. more books like this by Peter Handke, Michael Roloff add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions

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