Peter Handke has been acclaimed as "unmistakably one of the best writers we have in that self-discovering tendency we call post-modernism" (Malcolm Bradbury, New York Times Book Review). In his new novel. Handke tells the story of an Austrian writer — a man much like Handke himself — who explores world and describes his many severed relationships, ranging from the fragile connection with his son, to a failed marriage to "the Catalan", to a doomed love with a former Miss Yugoslavia. As the writer sifts through his memories, he is also under pressure to complete his next novel, but he cannot decide how to come to terms with both the complexity of the world and the inability of his novel to reflect it.A mysterious, haunting work, My Year in the No-Man's-Bay reflects what one critic has called "an intensity that scalds the reader" (Paul Duguid, San Francisco Chronicle).