{"product_id":"9781466895393","title":"On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA short, powerful new novel by one of the greatest writers in the German language\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn a Dark Night I Left My Silent House\u003c\/i\u003e is Peter Handke's evocative, moving, often fantastic, novel about one man's conflict with himself and his journey toward resolution. During one night shift, an unnamed, middle-aged pharmacist in Taxham, an isolated suburb of Salzburg, tells his story to a narrator.  The pharmacist is known and well-respected, but lonely and estranged from his wife. He feels most comfortable wandering about in nature, collecting and eating hallucinogenic mushrooms. One day he receives a blow to the head that leaves him unable to speak, and the narrative is transformed from ironic description into a collection of sensual impressions, observations and reflections. The pharmacist, who is now called the driver, sets out on a quest, travelling into the Alps with two companions--a former Olympic skiing champion and a formerly famous poet--where he is beaten and later stalked by a woman. He drives through a tunnel and has a premonition of death, then finds himself in a surreal, foreign land. In a final series of bizarre, cathartic events, the driver regains his speech and is taken back to his pharmacy--back to his former life, but forever changed. A powerful, poetic exploration of language, longing and dislocation in the human experience, \u003ci\u003eOn a Dark Night I Left My Silent House\u003c\/i\u003e reveals Handke at his magical best.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159018979568,"sku":"9781466895393","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466895393_p0.jpg?v=1769892256","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466895393","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}