The Second Sword: A Tale from the Merry Month of May, and My Day in the Other Land: A Tale of Demons
Peter Handke
Translated by Krishna Winston
Paperback
18 July 2024Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Synopsis
Two novellas by Peter Handke—his first works to be published since he won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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 (described in The New...
Details
18 July 2024192 pages
9780374616762Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Reviews
"Well-crafted . . . Handke’s ill-tempered visions are feverishly thrilling." —Publishers Weekly
"Everything is in the details, beautifully observed." —Booklist
