The Ballad of the Last Guest - Couverture rigide

Handke, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374616159 ISBN 13 : 9780374616151

Editeur : Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2025

Synopsis

A novel about a man who returns home, only to find that home is now unrecognisable, by the Nobel laureate Peter Handke. Gregor returns home from another continent. The landscape, formerly dotted with small villages, has been absorbed into the outskirts of a large city, both familiar and foreign at the same time. His father sits playing cards, waiting for him, but Gregor is surprised to find his sister holding an infant. He, the older brother, is to be the child’s godfather - though he also carries with him the secret of his younger brother’s death. In the end, Gregor is never quite able to stay put. He is drawn out into the world, into the streets and alleys of what is now a city, to the cinema, the soccer stadium, the forest, and above all the old fruit orchard, now overgrown and beyond saving. As he walks, the present and the past become intertwined memories of childhood surface, and inner voices enter into dialogue. Revisiting many of the settings and themes of Peter Handke’s previous works, The Ballad of the Last Guest takes stock of the changes that have been wrought on the land - and on human beings - over the course of the twenty-first century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. His many novels include The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, My Year in the No-Man’s-Bay, and Crossing the Sierra de Gredos, all published by FSG. In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.”

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374616159
• ISBN 13: 9780374616151
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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