{"product_id":"9780857428417","title":"The Great Fall","description":"Author: Peter Handke\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780857428417\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Gazebo Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Oct 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 208\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'On the day of the Great Fall he left nothing, nothing at all behind.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe latest work by Peter Handke, one of our greatest living writers, chronicles a day in life of an ageing actor as he makes his way on foot from the outskirts of a great metropolis into its centre. He is scheduled to receive a prestigious award that evening from the country's president, and the following day he is supposed to start shooting for a film  perhaps his last  in which he plays a man who runs amok. While passing through a forest, he encounters the outcasts of the society  homeless people and migrants  but he keeps trudging along, traversing a suburb whose inhabitants are locked in petty but mortal conflicts, crossing a seemingly unbridgeable superhighway, and wandering into an abandoned railyard, where police, unused to pedestrians, detain him briefly on suspicion of terrorism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThings don't improve when he reaches the heart of the city. There he can't help but see the alienation characteristic of its residents and the omnipresent malign influence of electronic technology. What, then, is the 'Great Fall'? What is this heart-wrenching, humorous, distinctively attentive narrative trying to tell us? As usual, Peter Handke, deeply introspective and powerfully critical of the world around him, leaves it to the reader to figure out.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47845875712158,"sku":"ADS-9780857428417","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780857428417.jpg?v=1781223656","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780857428417","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}