by Peter Handke · Guanda · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788823522411
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«La ladra di frutta» is the novel by Peter Handke published by Guanda in paperback, with 432 pages, in Italian.
A narrator leaves his home near Paris after the first bee sting of summer and walks towards Picardy following the itinerary of the «fruit thief», who is searching for her missing mother. The two journeys overlap and culminate in a celebration of wandering and reunion.
Italian translation by Alessandra Iadicicco. Original German title: «Die Obstdiebin – oder – Einfache Fahrt ins Landesinnere» (2017). Narratori della Fenice collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in introspective narrative and the work of Nobel laureate Peter Handke.
Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." Handke is considered to be one of the most influential and original German-language writers in the second half of the 20th century.
