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by H
About This Novel
Nobel laureate Handke's creative new work is an epic journey into the interior of France and an image of French social reality. Written for young people who cannot gain a foothold in society: Go to the wilderness to find your true self. At the beginning of the novel, on a beautiful day in early August, an old man living in the suburbs of Paris left his peaceful suburban residence in Paris, an "uninhabited bay" surrounded by forests, and went to his country house in Picardy. As he walked, observing his surroundings, he occasionally mentioned a young woman he called "the fruit-stealing girl" who seemed to be on a similar journey to northern France. This "fruit-stealing girl" is 25 years old and has been "eager to escape" since adolescence. She just returned from Siberia and immediately went out to find her mother. In retracing her footsteps (whether real or imagined) through the interior of France, the narrator is writing about her in his own way, and thus the novel is born.
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