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In "Slow Homecoming" Peter Handke, "the best writer, altogether, in his language" (John Updike, "The New Yorker"), presents a suite of three interrelated fictions, introducing Valentin Sorger, a geologist and a man "nowhere at home". Installed in an Alaskan village in "The Long Way Around", Sorger displays a child's fascination with the world of natural forms, until he feels compelled to return to his native Europe via America, gradually resurfacing into the "world of names". "The Lesson of Mont Sainte-Victoire" follows the author of Sorger's story as he explores the mountain in Provence so often painted by Cezanne. And "Child Story" brings the suite to a dramatic and eloquent close, as a father -- resembling Sorger and his creator -- and daughter struggle to find their places as members of a family, and as subjects of a breathtaking work of art.
In "Slow Homecoming" Peter Handke, "the best writer, altogether, in his language" (John Updike, "The New Yorker"), presents a suite of three interrelated fictions, introducing Valentin Sorger, a geologist and a man "nowhere at home". Installed in an Alaskan village in "The Long Way Around", Sorger displays a child's fascination with the world of natural forms, until he feels compelled to return to his native Europe via America, gradually resurfacing into the "world of names". "The Lesson of Mont Sainte-Victoire" follows the author of Sorger's story as he explores the mountain in Provence so often painted by Cezanne. And "Child Story" brings the suite to a dramatic and eloquent close, as a father -- resembling Sorger and his creator -- and daughter struggle to find their places as members of a family, and as subjects of a breathtaking work of art.
