On the Jaunfeld, the plain at the centre of the Slovenian settlement in the Austrian province of Carinthia, the dead and the living of a family meet. At the heart of this series of monologues is the battle of the Slovene minority against Nazism – the only prolonged armed resistance to the “Third Reich” within its boundaries. The hopes and promise of that struggle contrast with the renewed marginalisation and suppression of the Slovenes and their language in Austria after 1945. Presenting a panorama that extends far beyond all literary genres, Peter Handke blends penetrating prose and poetic drama to explore a deeply personal history. In this book, the times of conflict and peace, war and pre–war periods and the seasons themselves shift and overlap.

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