The Second Sword: A Tale from the Merry Month of May, and My Day in the Other Land: A Tale of Demons: Two Novellas

by Peter Handke

Book Overview

Two novellas by Peter Handke--his first new works since he won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Second Sword and My Day in the Other Land are two new novellas by the 2019 Nobel laureate Peter Handke. The first picks up the story where Handke's last work of fiction, The Fruit Thief (described in The New York Times as "an experience of unadulterated literature"), left off. Here a man has returned...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374601445
• ISBN13: 9780374601447
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 7.3"