Across

Those who gravitate to the regions where fiction poetry imaginative flights and speculative fancy converge constitute Handke''s natural audience. - Publishers WeeklyNobel Prize winner Peter Handke''s novel Across 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 invisible threshold and will be stuck in this secular purgatory until he can confess his crime.