{"product_id":"my-year-in-the-no-mans-bay-9781250767233","title":"My Year in the No-Man's-Bay","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNobel Prize winner Peter Handke's autobiographical novel \u003ci\u003eMy Year in No-Man's Bay\u003c\/i\u003e is \"a meditation on two decades of a writer's life culminating in a solitary, sobering year of reckoning\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his most substantial novel to date, Handke tells the story of an Austrian writer--a man much like Handke himself--who undergoes a \"metamorphosis\" from self-assured artist into passive \"observer and chronicler.\" He explores the world and describes his many severed relationships, from his tenuous contact with his son, to a failed marriage to \"the Catalan,\" to a doomed love affair with a former Miss Yugoslavia. As the writer sifts through his memories, he is also under pressure to complete his next novel, but he cannot decide how to come to terms with both the complexity of the world and the inability of his novel to reflect it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. A novelist, playwright, and translator, he is the author of such acclaimed works as \u003ci\u003eThe Moravian Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Sorrow Beyond Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRepetition\u003c\/i\u003e. The recipient of multiple literary awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize and the International Ibsen Award, Handke is also a filmmaker. He wrote and directed adaptations of his novels \u003ci\u003eThe Left-Handed Woman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAbsence\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-wrote the screenplays for Wim Wenders' \u003ci\u003eWrong Movie\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWings of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50478125351186,"sku":"9781250767233","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_352783c8-9d9d-4ed4-b8de-90060d73c1d2.jpg?v=1730284378","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-year-in-the-no-mans-bay-9781250767233","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}