The Fruit Thief: Or, One-Way Journey Into the Interior: A Novel by Handke, Peter

The Fruit Thief: Or, One-Way Journey Into the Interior: A Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250862921)

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The Fruit Thief: Or, One-Way Journey Into the Interior: A Novel by Handke, Peter

The Fruit Thief: Or, One-Way Journey Into the Interior: A Novel

$19.00
The Fruit Thief: Or, One-Way Journey Into the Interior: A Novel by Handke, Peter

The Fruit Thief: Or, One-Way Journey Into the Interior: A Novel

$19.00
Format: Paperback
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A major new novel from the Nobel laureate Peter Handke--one of his most inventive and dazzlingly original works

On a summer day under a blue sky a man is stung on his foot by a bee. "The sting signaled that the time had come to set out, to hit the road. Off with you. The hour of departure has arrived." The man boards a train to Paris, crosses the city by M騁ro, then boards another, disembarking in a small town on the plains to the north. He is searching for a young woman he calls the Fruit Thief, who, like him, has set off on a journey to the Vexin plateau. What follows is a vivid but dreamlike exploration of topography both physical and affective, charting the Fruit Thief's perambulations across France's internal borderlands: alongside rivers and through ravines, beside highways and to a bolt-hole under the stairs of an empty hotel. Chance encounters--with a man scrambling through the underbrush in search of his lost cat, and with a delivery boy who abandons his scooter to become a fellow traveler for a day--are like so many throws of the dice, each exposing new facets of this mysterious individual in the manner of a cubist portrait.

In prose of unrivaled precision, lucidly rendered into English by Krishna Winston, The Fruit Thief elevates the terrain of everyday life to epic status, and situates the microgeography of an individual at the center of a book like few others. This is one of Nobel laureate Peter Handke's most significant and original achievements.

Author: Peter Handke
ISBN-10: 1250862922
ISBN-13: 9781250862921
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2023
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 0.76d
By Peter Handke
By Peter Handke
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Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. His many novels include The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, My Year in the No-Man's-Bay, and Crossing the Sierra de Gredos, all published by FSG. Handke's dramatic works include Kaspar and the screenplay for Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire. Handke is the recipient of many major literary awards, including the Georg B?hner, Franz Kafka, and Thomas Mann Prizes and the International Ibsen Award. In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."

Krishna Winston, now retired from teaching German literature and environmental studies at Wesleyan University, has been translating the work of Peter Handke since 1993. She has translated the work of many other authors, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, G?ter Grass, Christoph Hein, and Werner Herzog.

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