Absence

by Peter Handke

Book Overview

A "challenging and rewarding novel"* from Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke.

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.

"In this smoothly written fable, Handke forcefully summons readers to the recognition that the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374527636
• ISBN13: 9780374527631
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 8.1"