The Moravian Night

Peter Handke · 2008 CE · Novel · German · Contemporary

On a houseboat on the Morava, a former writer gathers his friends and recounts through the night a journey across Europe, stopping at places, women and ghosts of his past. The telling leaps through memory and landscape. A late Handke work that rewrites the wandering of his earlier books such as Repetition.

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