Der Bildverlust oder Durch die Sierra de Gredos

Crossing the Sierra de Gredos

AuthorPeter Handke

LanguageGerman

Year2002

CountryGermany

GenreNovel

modern europenobel prize

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Crossing the Sierra de Gredos is a 2002 novel by the Austrian writer Peter Handke. It tells the story of a successful female banker who makes a journey through the Sierra de Gredos mountain range in Spain to meet a famous author in La Mancha who will write her biography. On the way she makes stops where she is confronted with the unheroic and commercialised world she wishes to escape. Handke describes the book as "a medieval novel about modern times."— Wikipedia