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The Fruit Thief: Or, One-Way Journey Into the Interior
[Hardback - 2022]
peter handke
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Usa | ISBN: 9780374906504 | Pages: 336
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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 Metro, 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.

About the Author

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 Buchner, 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."

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