{"product_id":"slow-homecoming-new-york-review-books-classics","title":"Slow Homecoming","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Nobel Prize Winner Peter Handke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvocative, romantic, and restlessly exploratory, Peter Handke is one of the great writers of our time. \u003cem\u003eSlow Homecoming,\u003c\/em\u003e originally published in the late 1970s, is central to his achievement and to the powerful influence he has exercised on other writers, chief among them W.G. Sebald. A novel of self-questioning and self-discovery, \u003cem\u003eSlow Homecoming\u003c\/em\u003e is a singular odyssey, an escape from the distractions of the modern world and the unhappy consciousness, a voyage that is fraught and fearful but ultimately restorative, ending on an unexpected note of joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book begins in America. Writing with the jarring intensity of his early work, Handke introduces Valentin Sorger, a troubled geologist who has gone to Alaska to lose himself in his work, but now feels drawn back home: on his way to Europe he moves in ominous disorientation through the great cities of America. The second part of the book, “The Lesson of Mont Sainte-Victoire,” identifies Sorger as a projection of the author, who now writes directly about his own struggle to reconstitute himself and his art by undertaking a pilgrimage to the great mountain that Cézanne painted again and again. Finally, “Child Story” is a beautifully observed, deeply moving account of a new father—not so much Sorger or the author as a kind of Everyman—and his love for his growing daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Handke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44953271271471,"sku":"9781590173077","price":1099.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9781590173077.jpg?v=1770797030","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/slow-homecoming-new-york-review-books-classics","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}