A Sorrow Beyond Dreams Signed First Edition Reference

Wunschloses Unglück (Residenz Verlag, 1972; English: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975) is Handke’s account of his mother’s life and suicide — a short, devastating book that uses the restraint of Handke’s style to convey emotional devastation without sentimentality. The mother’s life is presented as a series of social and historical constraints that gradually crush any possibility of individual happiness.

Signed Copy Market Values

• Signed English first: $50–$150
• Unsigned English first: $15–$30

The most emotionally powerful Handke text and perhaps the finest literary memoir about a parent’s death in the German language.