by Peter Handke · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518418772
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«Kali: eine Vorwintergeschichte» is the novel by Peter Handke published by Suhrkamp in paperback, in German.
A singer travels, at the end of her tour, to the neighboring region beyond the river of her childhood, where winter is winter and the subsoil is salt: kali. There are survivors of an invisible war there, and the disappearance of a child makes their situation desperate. For her, traveling is rediscovering the world and others, uniting the external and the internal.
The first German edition appeared in 2007; the book belongs to literary fiction in the German language.
For readers interested in current German narrative; Peter Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019.
Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." Handke is considered to be one of the most influential and original German-language writers in the second half of the 20th century.
