Absence

A Novel

Peter Handke
eISBN-13: 9781466807754

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<p>A “challenging and rewarding novel”* from Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke.<br><br>The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. Absence follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- as they journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.<br><br>“In this smoothly written fable, Handke forcefully summons readers to the recognition that the essence of human life lies in the striving for self-expression even though its perfect realization must always remain elusive.”—*Publishers Weekly</p>

Sold By Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBNs 9780374100223, 9780374527631, 146680775X, 9781466807754
Language eng
Number of Pages 118