{"product_id":"9781250862921","title":"The Fruit Thief","description":"Author: Peter Handke\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781250862921\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: St Martins Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 25 Jul 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 336 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 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 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. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nIn prose of unrivaled precision, lucidly rendered into English by Krishna Winston,\u003ci\u003e The Fruit Thief\u003c\/i\u003e elevates the terrain of everyday life to epic status, and situates the microgeography of an individual at the center of a book like few others. This is one of Nobel laureate Peter Handke’s most significant and original achievements.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919332688030,"sku":"ING-9781250862921","price":25.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781250862921.jpg?v=1782810352","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781250862921","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}