4.3
Romans literatuur
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 (Luisterboek): 9781529060683
Vertaling: Charlotte Collins
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 18 maart 2021
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4.3
Romans literatuur
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 (Luisterboek): 9781529060683
Vertaling: Charlotte Collins
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 18 maart 2021
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Marjan
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Mooie beschrijving van een eenvoudig leven van een Oostenrijker die in een dorpje in de bergen leeft in de twintigste eeuw. Mooie taal en fijn voorgelezen
Loes
10 jan 2024
Beautiful story, makes you contempcontemplatie about live. Very pleasant voice.
Evelien
22 okt 2021
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