The Left-Handed Woman

Peter Handke
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Peter Handke tells the story of a woman determined to break with her husband and her past and to form a new life for herself. Marianne, a mother and hausfrau in her thirtieth year, begins to examine her life keeping house in the suburbs of a large industrial city in West Germany.
Genres: FictionGerman LiteratureNobel PrizeClassicsLiteratureNovelsGermanyContemporary20th CenturyNovella
87 Pages

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