"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide."
So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost intolerable horror of her suicide, he sets out to piece together the facts of her life, as he perceives them. What emerges is a loving portrait of inconsolable grief, a woman whose lively spirit has been crushed not once but over and over again by the miseries of her place and time. Yet well into middle age, living in the Austrian village of her birth, she still remains haunted by her dreams.
- ISBN10 1590170199
- ISBN13 9781590170199
- Publish Date 30 November 2002 (first published 1 January 1975)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint New York Review of Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 76
- Language English