Sorrow beyond Dreams - Peter Handke - Paperback

"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better get to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away ..." So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the horror of her suicide, he sets out to piece together the facts of her life. What emerges is a loving portrait of inconsolable grief, a woman whose lively spirit has been crushed by the miseries of her place and time.Handke, Peter is the author of 'Sorrow beyond Dreams - Peter Handke - Paperback' with ISBN 9781901285178 and ISBN 1901285170.