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Zusatztext A Whole Life is a lovely contemplation of a life in solitude in a remote valley! into which the modern world slowly intrudes. Informationen zum Autor Robert Seethaler was born in Vienna in 1966 and is the author of four previous novels. A Whole Life is a top ten-bestseller in Germany! where it has brought him huge acclaim. Klappentext Andreas Egger knows every path and peak of his mountain valley! the source of his sustenance! his livelihood - his home. Set in the mid-twentieth century and told with beauty and tenderness! his story is one of man's relationship with an ancient landscape! of the value of solitude! the arrival of the modern world! and above all! of the moments! great and small! that make us who we are. The 170,000-copy German bestseller Zusammenfassung 'Heart-rending and heart-warming . . . for all its gentleness! a very powerful novel' Jim Crace 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. Translated by Charlotte Collins.
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Robert Seethaler's quietly mesmerizing novel - elemental in both tone and subject - shows what joy and nobility can be found in a life of hardship, patience and bereavement. It is at once heart-rending and heart-warming. A Whole Life , for all its gentleness, is a very powerful book. Jim Crace
