Absence: A Novel

A “challenging and rewarding novel”* from Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke.The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. Absence follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler--as they journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city. . “In this smoothly written fable, Handke forcefully summons readers to the recognition that the essence of human life lies in the striving for self-expression even though its perfect realization must always remain elusive.”―*Publishers Weekly