The Moravian Night
Peter Handke
Translated by Krishna Winston
05 December 2017Synopsis
An odyssey through the mind and memory of a washed-up writer, from one of Europe’s most provocative novelists, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke
Mysteriously summoned to a houseboat on the Morava River, a few friends, associates, and collaborators of an old writer listen as he tells a story that will last until dawn: the tale of the once well-known writer’s recent...
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05 December 2017
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"Peter Handke commands one of the great German-language prose styles of the postwar period, a riverine rhetoric deep and swift and contrary of current." —Joshua Cohen, The New York Times Book Review
"A searching exploration of how travel and storytelling can help us find our truest selves." —Poornima Apte, Booklist
"The renowned Austrian novelist looks back on a body of work and a terrible century in this elegiac tale . . . Some of Handke's text is a kind of meditation on history . . . And some is simply lovely . . . Stellar." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
