My Year in the No-Man's-Bay (German: Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht) is a 1994 novel by the Austrian writer Peter Handke.
It follows a writer's attempt to describe a metamorphosis he went through two decades earlier, when he stopped being confrontative and instead became a passive observer.
Hage wrote that My Year in the No-Man's-Bay may be described as "postmodern literati-literature", something critics have anticipated with horror, but continued: "What does such a label matter, when the prose is as intense as relaxed, as surprising as obvious, as beautiful as original".
He described it as "one carefully observed image after another expanding into a cinematically eternal present tense", which according to Siegel means that "in a sense, then, Handke's novel is an argument for the superiority of film to the novel".
Rejecting character, plot and psychology as mere fictions, he relies on an ostentatious thematic framework that winds up being more implausible than any old-fashioned novelistic trick.