![]() ![]() ![]() It looks at the moments, big and small, that make us what we are. Andreas has no clear memory of his mother, never mentions any father. He dies more than 70 years later, only once having left the valley when called up towards the end of the 2nd World War. ![]() 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. Andreas arrives in an Austrian mountain village as a four year old boy. Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life 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. He became known primarily as a TV actor, but since 2006, has published novels which, in. Shortlisted for The 2016 Man Booker International PrizeĪndreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. Born in Vienna in 1966, Robert Seethaler is a writer and actor who attended drama school in Vienna. Shortlisted for The 2017 International Dublin Literary Award Shortlisted for The 2017 National Translation Award ![]()
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