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Robert Seethaler’s tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude looks at the moments, big and small, that make us who we are. Translated by Charlotte Collins.Andreas, a young orphan, is taken in by a farming family in the Austrian Alps. He grows up to be a man of few words. When Andreas falls in love with Marie, instead of proposing he lights 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 World War One - where he is taken prisoner in the Caucasus. When he returns, he finds that the modern world has reached his remote haven."This short, unadorned novel has something monumental about it, like a small mountain. It's reminiscent in different ways of Gerbrand Bakker's The Twin and Willy Vlautin's Lean on Pete, a more optimistic and less brutal work than either, but with the same understated realism. Yet with its dramatic European alpine landscapes and its looming central figure, empathetically but never sentimentally drawn, it also has the feel of a folk tale." - Kerryn Goldsworthy, The Sydney Morning HeraldRobert Seethaler is an Austrian writer li

Who reads A Whole Life : a Novel?

Author

Robert Seethaler

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781743539156

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Peoples & Cultures Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (2,167 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14