![]() ![]() ![]() It looks at the moments, big and small, that make us what we are. An exquisite novel about a simple life, it has already demonstrated its power to move thousands of readers with a message of solace and truth. Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life is a tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude. ![]() He leaves his valley just once more, to fight in WWII - where he is taken prisoner in the Caucasus - and returns to find that modernity has reached his remote haven. When Marie dies in an avalanche, pregnant with their first child, Andreas' heart is broken. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with Marie, he doesn't ask for her hand in marriage, but instead has some of his friends light her name at dusk across the mountain. Shortlisted for The 2016 Man Booker International PrizeĪndreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. The book has been translated from its original German by Charlotte Collins. A Whole Life is his first work to be translated into English and is already a German bestseller, selling over 100,000 copies. Shortlisted for The 2017 International Dublin Literary Award Robert Seethaler is an Austrian living in Berlin and is the author of four previous novels. Shortlisted for The 2017 National Translation Award Set in the mid-twentieth century and told with beauty and tenderness, Robert Seethaler's A Whole Life is a story of man's relationship with an ancient landscape, of the value of solitude, of the arrival of the modern world, and above all, of the moments, great and small, that make us who we are. ![]()
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