![]() Seethaler's scenes of mountain life are realised with spare, almost surreally vivid images. Jim Crace Against the backdrop of a literary world that often seems crowded with novels yelling "Look at me!", it's refreshing to read a story marked by quiet, concentrated attention. A Whole Life, for all its gentleness, is a very powerful book. It is at once heart-rending and heart-warming. 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 looks at the moments, big and small, that make us what we are.Translated by Charlotte Collins. 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. 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. for all its gentleness, a very powerful novel.' Jim CraceAndreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. ![]()
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