{"product_id":"the-fruit-thief-peter-handke-9781250862921","title":"The Fruit Thief: Or, One-Way Journey Into the Interior: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA major new novel from the Nobel laureate Peter Handke--one of his most inventive and dazzlingly original works\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn prose of unrivaled precision, lucidly rendered into English by Krishna Winston, \u003ci\u003eThe Fruit Thief \u003c\/i\u003eelevates 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Handke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250862922\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250862921\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 0.76d","brand":"Peter Handke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44071344537855,"sku":"9781250862921","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3d490d47-024b-4d3b-819b-4b0a38a3649e.jpg?v=1685435553","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-fruit-thief-peter-handke-9781250862921","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}