The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

One evening Marianne, a suburban housewife living in an identikit bungalow, is struck by the realization that her husband will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, she will be deserted. So she sends him away, knowing she must fend for herself and her young son. As she adjusts to her disorienting new life alone, what she thought was fear slowly starts to feel like freedom.

One evening Marianne, a suburban housewife living in an identikit bungalow, is struck by the realization that her husband will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, she will be deserted. So she sends him away, knowing she must fend for herself and her young son. As she adjusts to her disorienting new life alone, what she thought was fear slowly starts to feel like freedom.

2019. aasta Nobeli kirjandusauhinna laureaat Peter Handke on saksakeelse kirjanduse kaasaegne klassik. Tema raamatuid on tõlgitud enam kui 35 keelde. Ta on oluline saksakeelse eksperimentaalse ilu- ja näitekirjanduse mõjutaja, kelle teosed on mitme žanri ajaloos arvestatava tähtsusega. Romaan, mille märksõnaks võiks olla muutumine, jutustab kolmest päevast puuviljavarga elus. Alexia avatus võimaldab tal kogeda igapäevaelu erakordselt intensiivselt ja loob pildi maailmast, mis oli varem talle...

Filip Kobal, an Austrian teenager, is on the trail of his missing older brother Gregor, who he never knew. All he has is two of Gregor's books: a school copy book, and a dictionary in which certain words have been marked. As he enters Slovenia on his journey, Filip discovers something else entirely: the transformative power of language to describe the world, and the unnerving joy of being an outsider in a strange land.

Peter Lindberghs Erfolgsgeheimnis war nicht nur die meisterhaft beherrschte Schwarzwei?-Technik, sondern vor allem seine Sensibilitat im Umgang mit den Modellen. Weit mehr namlich als Perfektion und Glamour haben ihn immer die Ausstrahlung, Individualitat und Personlichkeit der Frauen vor seiner Kamera interessiert - Qualitaten, die man eher mit der Portrait- als der Modephotographie verbindet. Und so ist auch sein zweites Buch, Images of Women II, das die Jahre 2005-2014 umfasst, eher ein...