Peter Handke is a 2019 Nobel Prize winner, a bright representative of German-language literature, a talented stylist, a screenwriter of many famous films, including “The Sky Over Berlin” and “The Fear of the Goalkeeper Before the Penalty”. "The Second Sword" is Handke's last work to date, written immediately after the writer received the Nobel Prize. The voice of Handke sounds loud and clear, and in numerous metaphors, barely perceptible allusions, echoes of the author's thoughts and moods are guessed. What is injustice and what is revenge? And what is the real importance of stories? "The Second Sword" is a book, as is often the case with Handka, about the spiritual journey and endless contemplation of the surrounding world . In every detail Handke will find poetry that is difficult to imagine Even the most ordinary streets of Paris, even the knocking of tram wheels on its pages will play with new, bright colors.