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The Moravian Night
AuthorPeter Handke
Original titleDie morawische Nacht
TranslatorKrishna Winston
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman
PublisherSuhrkamp Verlag
Publication date
12 January 2008
Published in English
6 December 2016
Pages560
ISBN978-3-518-41950-2

The Moravian Night (German: Die morawische Nacht) is a 2008 novel by the Austrian writer Peter Handke. It tells the story of a retired writer who talks about a recent journey and the state of Europe in front of a small crowd on his houseboat, while anchored outside the village Porodin on the river Morava in Serbia.

The book was published in English in 2016, translated by Krishna Winston.

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