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2020

Format:	Book
Author:	Handke, Peter, author.
Title:	Repetition : a novel / Peter Handke ; translated by Ralph Manheim.
Edition:	First Picador paperback edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. ©1988
Description:	246 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:	"Set in 1960, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's Repetition tells of Filib Kobal's journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his missing brother, Gregor. He is armed only with two of Gregor's books: a copy book from agricultural school, and a Slovenian-German dictionary, in which Gregor has marked certain words. The resulting investigation of the laws of language and naming becomes a transformative investigation of himself and the world around him."-- provided by publisher
Subjects:	Brothers -- Fiction. Missing persons -- Fiction. Books and reading -- Fiction. Language and languages -- Fiction. Brothers -- Fiction. Carinthia (Austria) -- Fiction. Slovenia -- Fiction. Yugoslavia -- Fiction.
Genre:	Fiction.
Other Title:	Wiederholung. English
Notes:	"Originally published in German under the title Die Wiederholung by Suhrkamp Verlag"--Title page verso "A portion of this book originally appeared, in somewhat different form, in The New Yorker."--Title page verso Translated from the German edition published in 1986. Translated from the German.
ISBN:	9781250767271 125076727X
Other Number:	1125094971
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Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	959396
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Call Number:	FICTION Handke

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