Storm Still by Peter Handke (English) Paperback Book

Description: Storm Still by Peter Handke A series of monologues, chronicling both the battle of the Slovene minority in Austria against Nazism and their love of the land. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Peter Handke, a giant of Austrian literature, has produced decades of fiction, poetry, and drama informed by some of the most tumultuous events in modern history. But even as these events shaped his work, the presence of his mother—a woman whose life spanned the Weimar Republic, both world wars, and the postwar consumer economy—loomed even larger. In Storm Still, Handkes most recent work, he returns to the land of his birth, the Austrian province of Carinthia. There on the Jaunfeld, the plain at the center of Austrias Slovenian settlement, the dead and the living of a family meet and talk. Composed as a series of monologues, Storm Still chronicles both the battle of the Slovene minority against Nazism and their love of the land. Presenting a panorama that extends back to the authors bitter roots in the region, Storm Still blends penetrating prose and poetic drama to explore Handkes personal history, taking up themes from his earlier books and revisiting some of their characters. In this book, the times of conflict and peace, war and prewar, and even the seasons themselves shift and overlap. And the fate of an orchard comes to stand for the fate of a people. Author Biography Peter Handke was born in Austria in 1942. His works include the novels Short Letter, Long Farewell; The Left-Handed Woman; Repetition; Absence; and the play Till Day You Do Part; Or A Question of Light, also published by Seagull Books. Martin Chalmers is a Berlin-based translator from Glasgow. He has translated some of the best-known German-language writers including Herta Muller, Elfriede Jelinek, and Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Review "Handke, no doubt one of the best and most influential authors in European literature of the past five decades, is back again with another masterpiece, the beautiful Storm Still. Its about history, family, language, war, life and death, and its done with such skill, originality, simplicity and insight that I want to cry, with joy and with sorrow--and with envy!"-- "Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of Boyhood Island" Review Quote "One of Handkes most personal and touching works to date." Details ISBN0857425587 Author Peter Handke Pages 124 Year 2018 ISBN-10 0857425587 ISBN-13 9780857425584 Format Paperback Media Book Language English Series French List Imprint Seagull Books London Ltd Place of Publication Greenford Country of Publication United Kingdom Translator Martin Chalmers Publisher Seagull Books London Ltd DEWEY 838.91408 AU Release Date 2018-03-29 NZ Release Date 2018-03-29 Publication Date 2018-03-29 UK Release Date 2018-03-29 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161709291;

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