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The fruit thief : or, One-way journey into the interior : a novel

Call Number

  • FICTION HAND (CEN)

Edition

First American edition.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Physical Description

323 pages ; 22 cm

Uniform Title

Obstdiebin. English

Summary

"A novel describing the wanderings of a young woman called "the fruit thief" through northern France"--

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 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.

Notes

"Originally published in German in 2017 by Suhrkamp Verlag AG, Berlin, as Die Obstdiebin oder Einfache Fahrt ins Landesinnere"

Added Authors

Krishna Winston

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