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The Left-Handed Woman

by Peter Handke · 1976

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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.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1970s1970sMore like thisLess of thisGermanyGermanyMore like thisLess of thisAustriaAustriaMore like thisLess of thisEuropeEuropeMore like thisLess of thiscollegecollegeMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
short · 87 pages

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