Peter Handke, a giant of Austrian literature, has produced decades of fiction, poetry and drama informed by some of the most tumultuous events in modern history. But even as these events shaped his work, the presence of his mother a woman whose life spanned the Weimar Republic, both world wars and the post-war consumer economy loomed even larger. In Storm Still, Handke’s most recent work, he to the land of his birth, the Austrian province of Carinthia. There on the Jaunfeld, the plain at the centre of Austria’s Slovenian settlement, the dead and the living of a family meet and talk. Composed as a series of monologues, Storm Still chronicles both the battle of the Slovene minority against Nazism and their love of the land. Presenting a panorama that extends back to the author’s bitter roots in the region, Storm Still blends penetrating prose and poetic drama to explore Handke’s personal history, taking up themes from his earlier books and revisiting some of their characters. In this book, the times of conflict and peace, war and pre-war and even the seasons themselves shift and overlap. And the fate of an orchard comes to stand for the fate of a people.
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