Publisher's Synopsis
A "challenging and rewarding novel"* from Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke.
The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. Absence follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- as they journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
A remarkably abstract book even for the very abstract Handke... Slippery but engrossing work, silkily translated. - Kirkus Reviews
