
Fruit Thief
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 Métro, then boards another, disembarking in a...
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 Métro, then boards another, disembarking in a...