unbearable grief

"Six weeks have passed since my mother died, and I want to start working before the urge to write about her, which I felt so intensely on the day of her burial, turns into a numb inability to speak." This novel is a long elegy for the author's mother. In it, Handke begins to tell her story from the beginning; from a young girl living in the countryside under her father's control, to a mature woma...