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""Perceptive . . a dense and thorough exploration of one man's grappling with change and loss. . . Enlightening."" --Publishers Weekly ""[An] elegant mood piece . . . The Ballad of the Last Guest is saturated with a reflective spirit . . . An impressionistic novel that casts a memorable spell."" --Shelf Awareness

""Perceptive . . a dense and thorough exploration of one man's grappling with change and loss. . . Enlightening."" --Publishers Weekly

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Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. His many novels include The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, My Year in the No-Man's-Bay, and Crossing the Sierra de Gredos, all published by FSG. In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ""for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."" Krishna Winston is the Marcus L. Taft Professor of German Language and Literature at Wesleyan University. She has translated more than thirty books, including previous works by Peter Handke and works by Werner Herzog, Günter Grass, Christoph Hein, and Goethe.

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