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  Across (Paperback)(English / German) By (author) Peter Handke, Translated by Ralph Manheim

  

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  Short Description for AcrossHandke's novel tells the story of a quiet, organized classics teacher named Andreas Loser. One night, on the way to his regularly scheduled card game, he passes a tree that has been defaced by a swastika. Impulsively yet deliberately, he tracks down the defacer and kills him. With this act, Loser has crossed an invisble threshold, and will be stuck in this secular purgatory until he can confess hi...
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  • Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Published: 15 June 2000
  • Format: Paperback 148 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780374527648 ISBN 10: 0374527644
  • Sales rank: 382,487

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Full description for Across

• Handke's novel tells the story of a quiet, organized classics teacher named Andreas Loser. One night, on the way to his regularly scheduled card game, he passes a tree that has been defaced by a swastika. Impulsively yet deliberately, he tracks down the defacer and kills him. With this act, Loser has crossed an invisble threshold, and will be stuck in this secular purgatory until he can confess his crime.