An emotionally riveting collection that tells a powerful story of passion, loss, and transformation. __ _Left-handed_ unfolds in the manner of an intense, searching novella. At its center is a one-way dialogue with an elusive character who beguiles and torments but also inspires the unnamed narr
Left Handed Women
โ Scribed by Peter Handke
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 2011;2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 50 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
A young woman faces loneliness and alienation on a journey to find her own life outside of being a wife and mother in Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke's The Left-Handed Woman.
One evening, when Marianne and her husband, Bruno, are dining out together to celebrate his return from a business trip, Marianne listens to him speak and realizes suddenly yet finally that Bruno will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, she will be deserted. And instinctively Marianne knows she must fend for herself and her young son now, before that time comes.
She sends Bruno away and settles down to a life alone, at first experiencing moments of panic, restlessly wandering in rooms grown stifling. The stillness of the house wears her down, and she starts taking long walks, or visiting with her close friend, Franziska.
Gradually, what began as a selfish escape from the prospects of the future becomes in fact liberation. The environment...
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