Across - by Peter Handke (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Those who gravitate to the regions where fiction, poetry, imaginative flights and speculative fancy converge constitute Handke's natural audience. - <i>Publishers Weekly</i></b> <p/>Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novel <i>Across </i>tells the story of a quiet, organized classics teacher named Andreas Loser. One night, on the way to his regularly scheduled card game, he passes a tree that has been defaced by a swastika. Impulsively yet deliberately, he tracks down the defacer and kills him. With this act, Loser has crossed an invisible threshold, and will be stuck in this secular purgatory until he can confess his crime.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Those who gravitate to the regions where fiction, poetry, imaginative flights and speculative fancy converge constitute Handke's natural audience. - <i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Peter Handke</b> was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. A novelist, playwright, and translator, he is the author of such acclaimed works as <i>The Moravian Night</i>, <i>A Sorrow Beyond Dreams</i>, <i>The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick</i>, and <i>Repetition</i>. The recipient of multiple literary awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize and the International Ibsen Award, Handke is also a filmmaker. He wrote and directed adaptations of his novels <i>The Left-Handed Woman</i> and <i>Absence</i>, and co-wrote the screenplays for Wim Wenders' <i>Wrong Movie </i>and <i>Wings of Desire.</i> He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019.
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