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Aug 30, 2010 · The left-handed woman. by. Handke, Peter. Publication date. 1978. Publisher. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Collection. internetarchivebooks; americana; printdisabled.
May 26, 1978 · The Left-Handed Woman: Directed by Peter Handke. With Edith Clever, Markus Mühleisen, Bruno Ganz, Michael Lonsdale. After returning from a business trip in Finland, Bruno (Bruno Ganz) find that his wife Marianne (Edith Clever) wants her husband to leave her alone with their son.
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A young woman faces loneliness and alienation on a journey to find her own life outside of being a wife and mother in Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke’s The Left-Handed Woman.
Mar 4, 2015 · A bourgeois German family living in stifling comfort in the suburbs of Paris is torn apart when Marianne (Edith Clever) suddenly decides she wants to be rid of her energetic, adoring husband...
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Die linkshändige Frau (1976; The Left-Handed Woman) is a dispassionate description of a young mother coping with the disorientation she feels after she has separated from her husband. Handke’s memoir about his deceased mother, Wunschloses Unglück (1972; “Wishless Un-luck”; Eng. trans.
The Left-Handed Woman is probably one of Peter Handke’s best known novellas, translated into more than a dozen of languages. Two years after being published in 1978, it was made into a film that Handke adapted and directed.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE. 'One of Europe's great writers' Karl Ove Knausgaard. One evening Marianne, a suburban housewife living in an identikit bungalow, is struck by the realization that her husband will leave her.
