{"product_id":"the-moravian-night-a-story","title":"The Moravian Night: A Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn odyssey through the mind and memory of a washed-up writer  from one of Europes most provocative novelists  Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke  Mysteriously summoned to a houseboat on the Morava River  a few friends  associates  and collaborators of an old writer listen as he tells a story that will last until dawn: the tale of the once well-known writers recent odyssey across Europe. As his story unfolds  it visits places that represent stages of the narrators and the continents past  many now lost or irrecoverably changed through war  death  and the subtler erosions of time. His wanderings take him from the Balkans to Spain  Germany  and Austria  from a congress of experts on noise sickness to a clandestine international gathering of jews-harp virtuosos. His story and its telling are haunted by a beautiful stranger  a woman who has a preternatural hold over the writer and appears sometimes as a demon  sometimes as the longed-for destination of his travels.  Powerfully alive  honest  and at times deliciously satirical  The Moravian Night explores the mind and memory of an aging writer  tracking the anxieties  angers  fears  and pleasures of a life inseparable from the recent history of Central Europe. In crystalline prose  Peter Handke traces and interrogates his own thoughts and perceptions while endowing the world with a mythic dimension. As Jeffrey Eugenides writes  Handkes sharp eye is always finding a strange beauty amid this colorless world.  The Moravian Night is at once an elegy for the lost and forgotten and a novel of self-examination and uneasy discovery  from one of world literatures great voices.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44949386887221,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374212554","price":59.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374212551.jpg?v=1770073807","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-moravian-night-a-story","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}