The left-handed woman

Peter Handke

Original title: Die linkhändige Frau

earliest edition we have, 1976 Suhrkamp, 1979 130 pages

Suhrkamp Taschenbuch -- 560.

"One evening, when Marianne and her husband, Bruno, are dining out together to celebrate his return from a business trip, Marianne listens to him speak and realizes suddenly yet finally that Bruno will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, she will be deserted. And instinctively Marianne knows she must fend for herself and her young son now, before that time comes. She sends Bruno away and settles d...

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Ralph Manheim 1 printing we hold · 1978 · Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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Editions we hold

Left-Handed Woman edition · 2020 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780141993591
Left-Handed Woman edition · 2020 · Penguin Books, Limited · 80 pages · 9780241457672
Left-Handed Woman paperback · 2020 · Picador · 96 pages · 9781250767301
La Mujer Zurda/ The Left-handed Woman (Biblioteca De Autor / Author Library) paperback · 2006 · Alianza Editorial Sa · 118 pages · 9788420660790
La Femme Gauchere paperback · 1999 · Gallimard Education · 9782070371921
Left-handed Woman edition · 1986 · Mandarin · 96 pages · 9780413423900
The left-handed woman edition · 1982 · Abacus · 89 pages
Die linkshandige Frau paperback · 1981 · Suhrkamp Verlag · 9783518399347
Die linkshändige Frau paperback · 1981 · Suhrkamp · 130 pages · 9783518370605
Die linkshändige Frau edition · 1979 · Suhrkamp · 130 pages
Left-Handed Woman edition · 1978 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9781466806962
The left-handed woman edition · 1978 · Farrar, Straus, and Giroux · 87 pages

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