A whole life
Seethaler, Robert, 1966-2015
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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, his 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.
Main title:
A whole life / Robert Seethaler ; translated by Charlotte Collins.
Author:
Seethaler, Robert, 1966-, authorCollins, Charlotte, translator
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2015.
Collation:
160 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9781447283904 (pbk)
Dewey class:
833.9'2
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
163309
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