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Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. 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. When Marie dies in an avalanche, pregnant with their first child, Andreas' heart is broken. 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…
Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler is a tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude. 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. It looks at the moments, big and small, that make us what we are.
© 2021 Picador (Audiobook): 9781529060683
Translators: Charlotte Collins
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Audiobook: 18 March 2021
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A Whole Life
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Shortlisted for the Booker International Prize.
Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. 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. When Marie dies in an avalanche, pregnant with their first child, Andreas' heart is broken. 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…
Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler is a tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude. 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. It looks at the moments, big and small, that make us what we are.
© 2021 Picador (Audiobook): 9781529060683
Translators: Charlotte Collins
Release date
Audiobook: 18 March 2021
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Qabeer
6 Sept 2023
HeartwarmingVery interesting biography of a casual worker, who later became a hiking guide.
Nisha
30 Nov 2022
HeartwarmingCozyA simple, yet elegant narrative of a man's life in the mountains. Shorn of all emotional melodrama, romanticism and philosophical musings, the narrative is so bare and down to earth that you can literally extend your fingers and feel them immersing in the fog. This is the tale of a life well lived, though no one may line up and applaud when Andreas Egger walks by. A beautiful, simple read, which will quietly leave an indelible mark in the reader's mind.
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