Peter Handke has extracted and written down a sentence from sleep and dream upon awakening 365 times. Thus, a book has emerged that can accompany you every day. Everyone knows those moments between sleep and wakefulness, just before true consciousness, when images and words from the mix of remnants of the day and dreams attempt to form half and whole sentences, but usually dissolve before they take shape. Peter Handke has the ability to capture such sentences, thus complementing his diaries with a book of the night. These are sentences whose origins are as mysterious as their ongoing impact is evident. Their magic unfolds like a rose of Jericho in water: whether they sound like fragments of an old tale or the beginning of a new one, they bloom and reveal themselves unmistakably and fresh like the young day.