Once Again for Thucydides is a collection of seventeen micro-epics written on trips around the world. In each brief journal entry, Handke concentrates on small things he observes, trying to capture their essence, their simple, unadorned validity. What results is a work or remarkable precision, in which he uncovers the general appearance of random objects and discovers their inner working and mystery.

Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke's novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book starts by introducing us to a nameless young German who has just arrived in America, where he hopes to get over the collapse of his marriage. No sooner has he arrived, however, than he discovers that his ex-wife is pursuing him. He flees, she follows, and soon the couple is running circles around each other across the length of America--from Philadelphia to St. Louis to the Arizona desert, and...

"Unter der Rubrik VERMISCHTES stand in der Sonntagsausgabe der Krntner "Volkszeitung" folgendes: "In der Nacht zum Samstag verbte eine 51jhrige Hausfrau aus A. (Gemeinde G.) Selbstmord durch Einnehmen einer berdosis von Schlaftabletten." Es ist inzwischen fast sieben Wochen her, seit meine Mutter tot ist, und ich mchte mich an die Arbeit machen, bevor das Bedrfnis, ber sie zu schreiben, das bei der Beerdigung so stark war, sich in die stumpfsinnige Sprachlosigkeit zurckverwandelt, mit der ich auf die Nachricht von dem Selbstmord reagierte."

In der Sierra de Gredos erstreckt sich von Ost nach West eine bis in den Frühling hinein verschneite, fast zweihundert Gratkilometer lange Gipfelflur. Dorthin macht sich die Bankfrau, von deren Abenteuern dieser Roman handelt, aus einer nordwestlichen Flußhafenstadt auf den Weg. Sie will diese Bergkette durchqueren und dort in dem Manchadorf den Autor treffen, mit dem sie einen klassischen Lieferantenvertrag abgeschlossen hat: Sie, die mächtige Strippenzieherin mit den verschiedenen Namen, die nach einem tödlichen Verkehrsunfall der Eltern bei ihren Großeltern auf dem Dorf aufwuchs, viel...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 'Portrays the breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus' The Stranger' The New York Times Joseph Bloch, a once-famous goalkeeper turned construction worker, commits a random murder without thought or regret. As he wanders the streets, from hotel to bar, cinema to tram stop, experiencing strange and violent encounters on the way, he finds himself, and everything around him, disintegrating. Told in spare and icy prose, Peter Handke's masterpiece of alienation takes apart our ideas of humanity and reality itself. 'A Kafkaesque crime...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 'Repetition made a great and, as I have since learned, lasting impression on me' W. G. Sebald Filip Kobal, an Austrian teenager, is on the trail of his missing older brother Gregor, who he never knew. All he has is two of Gregor's books: a school copy book, and a dictionary in which certain words have been marked. As he enters Slovenia on his journey, Filip discovers something else entirely: the transformative power of language to describe the world, and the unnerving joy of being an outsider in a strange land. 'One of the most moving...