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 by Robert Seethaler is a tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude. A treatise of a man seemingly perpetually on the sidelines of the world but whose life encompasses a spectrum of events and feelings which may appear inconsequential to a wider lens but ensures, at least in his own eyes, that he has lived it well and with purpose. 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. A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a short novel of gentle power and emotional heft. 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 Booker International Prize.Īndreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. Author(s): Seethaler, Robert, Collins, Charlotte,īook Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation
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