"Moving and beautifully realized . . . Nearly perfect." –Richard Locke, The New York Times Book Review
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams is Handke's masterpiece, a short, concentrated, mysteriously exhaustive portrait of his mother, from whom history and circumstance have removed most traces of an identity." –
J. S. Marcus, The New York Review of Books "In
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, the author confronts his mother's suicide in a compelling story that is 'like an explanation of a recurrent dream, a dream so vividly expressed it becomes our dream.'" –
Chicago Sun-Times