The Second Sword: A Tale from the Merry Month of May, and My Day in the Other Land: A Tale of Demons av Peter Handke Winston, Translated from the Germ

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<p><b> Two novellas by Peter Handke¿his first new works since he won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature. <br></b><i><br>The Second Sword </i>and <i>My Day in the Other Land </i>are two new novellas by the 2019 Nobel laureate Peter Handke. The first picks up the story where Handke¿s last work of fiction, <i>The Fruit Thief </i>(described in <i>The New York Times </i>as ¿an experience of unadulterated <i>literature</i>¿), left off. Here a man has returned to his home in the suburbs of Paris, only to soon set out again. Why? We learn, over the course of a story redolent of Handke¿s harrowing <i>A Sorrow Beyond Dreams</i>, that he is seeking to avenge his mother, who has been unjustly denounced in the pages of a newspaper. <i>The Second Sword</i> is a suspenseful work of self-examination: Will the narrator¿s journey end in him throwing down the gauntlet?<br><br><i>My Day in the Other Land</i> is Handke¿s most recently published work¿and the first to be written after he was awarded the Nobe