The Ballad of the Last Guest: A Novel

“[Handke is] a supremely talented writer . . . The Ballad of the Last Guest conjures the spirit of [Kafka and Camus].” —Tobias Grey, Financial Times

A novel about a man who returns home, only to find that home is now unrecognizable, by the Nobel laureate Peter Handke.

A man named Gregor returns to his hometown from another continent. The landscape, formerly dotted with small villages, has been absorbed into the outskirts of a large city, both familiar and foreign at the same time. His father...